dérives
\de.ʁiv\
The verdict
“dérives” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,395
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dérive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-derives · dérives · French
dérives · rank #11,395 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,395
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déployer
Nearest frequency peer: déployer (-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 « dérives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- défensive
défensive
88,609 corpus weight
- définies
définies
88,608 corpus weight
- déployer
déployer
88,607 corpus weight
- dérives
dérives
88,606 corpus weight
- déroulent
déroulent
88,605 corpus weight
- désirez
désirez
88,604 corpus weight
What this shows « dérives » 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 | dérives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ʁiv\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dérives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dérives (IPA \de.ʁiv\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,395 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de dérive.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dérives, with forms such as "ddérives", "derives", and "dréives". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drive", "driver", "devises", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dérives, spelled D-É-R-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dérive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dérives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soulignons qu’au même moment les forces de police font également l’objet de critiques, pour également des abus, des dérives, et d’évolutions en matière de formation et de déontologie ce qui doit nous faire « décirconstancier » la loi du 12 juillet 1983 et inscrire la sécurité privée dans une réflexion globale sur la sécurité.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddérives
- derives
- dréives
- déirves
- dérievs
- dérivess
- dérivse
- dérivves
- dérrives
- dérvies
- édrives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dérives - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dérives", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).