dérisoire
\de.ʁi.zwaʁ\
The verdict
“dérisoire” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,431. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,431
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est fait par dérision, contient de la dérision.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derisoire · dérisoire · French
dérisoire · rank #20,431 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,431
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déplaise
Nearest frequency peer: déplaise (-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 « dérisoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- délices
délices
79,573 corpus weight
- dénicher
dénicher
79,572 corpus weight
- déplaise
déplaise
79,571 corpus weight
- dérisoire
dérisoire
79,570 corpus weight
- désaccords
désaccords
79,569 corpus weight
- désarmement
désarmement
79,568 corpus weight
What this shows « dérisoire » 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 | dérisoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.ʁi.zwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérisoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dérisoire (IPA \de.ʁi.zwaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,431 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dérisoire, with forms such as "ddérisoire", "derisoire", and "dréisoire". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dérisoires", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dérisoire, spelled D-É-R-I-S-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est fait par dérision, contient de la dérision.
- 2Susceptible de provoquer la dérision du fait de son insignifiance, de sa petitesse.
- 3Risiblement inutile, vain, inefficace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dérisoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tous les laquais, tous les coupe-bourses, réunis aux écoliers, avaient été chercher processionnellement, dans l’armoire de la basoche, la tiare de carton et la simarre dérisoire du pape des fous.
Le combat se déroule malgré son côté dérisoire. Ou plutôt : le combat peut se dérouler justement à cause de son côté dérisoire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddérisoire
- derisoire
- dréisoire
- déirsoire
- dériosire
- dérisiore
- dérisoier
- dérisoirre
- dérisorie
- dérissoire
- dérrisoire
- dérsioire
- édrisoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dérisoire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).