derrière

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for derrière is 8 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛ.ʁjɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #564 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En arrière ou du côté opposé à la face.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for derrière, with forms such as "dderrière", "derirère", and "derière". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "derrières", "dernier", "décrire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is derrière, spelled D-E-R-R-I-È-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.