dernières
\dɛʁ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“dernières” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #936. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #936
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dernier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dernieres · dernières · French
dernières · rank #936 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #936
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dehors
Nearest frequency peer: dehors (-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 « dernières »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bons
bons
99,068 corpus weight
- critique
critique
99,067 corpus weight
- dehors
dehors
99,066 corpus weight
- dernières
dernières
99,065 corpus weight
- devenu
devenu
99,064 corpus weight
- directement
directement
99,063 corpus weight
What this shows « dernières » 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 | dernières |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛʁ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dernières »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dernières (IPA \dɛʁ.njɛʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #936 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dernier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dernières, with forms such as "ddernières", "denrières", and "derinères". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "derrière", "derniers", "derrières", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dernières, spelled D-E-R-N-I-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de dernier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dernières appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddernières
- denrières
- derinères
- dernieres
- dernirèes
- dernièers
- dernièress
- dernièrres
- dernièrse
- dernnières
- dernèires
- derrnières
- drenières
- edrnières
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dernières - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).