dérision
\de.ʁi.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dérision” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,121
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moquerie souvent accompagnée de mépris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derision · dérision · French
dérision · rank #17,121 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,121
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déportation
Nearest frequency peer: déportation (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérision »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- défie
défie
82,883 corpus weight
- déployés
déployés
82,882 corpus weight
- déportation
déportation
82,881 corpus weight
- dérision
dérision
82,880 corpus weight
- déterminées
déterminées
82,878 corpus weight
- Ellis
Ellis
82,877 corpus weight
What this shows « dérision » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dérision |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérision »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dérision (IPA \de.ʁi.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,121 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Moquerie souvent accompagnée de mépris.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dérision, with forms such as "ddérision", "derision", and "dréision". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "division", "decision", "décisions", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dérision, spelled D-É-R-I-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Moquerie souvent accompagnée de mépris.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dérision appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et quand en 1840, notre vin de Moselle ne fut qu'un âpre verjus, nos vignerons, par dérision et par haine du Prussien, donnèrent sarcastiquement à ce vin imbuvable le sobriquet de : Hassenpflug.
C’est un homme qui tourne tout en dérision.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddérision
- derision
- dréision
- déirsion
- dériison
- dérisino
- dérisionn
- dérisoin
- dérission
- dérrision
- dérsiion
- édrision
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dérision - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).