désaffecté
\de.za.fɛk.te\
The verdict
“désaffecté” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,573. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,573
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne sert plus, en parlant d’un lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desaffecte · désaffecté · French
désaffecté · rank #45,573 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #45,573
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déplorant
Nearest frequency peer: déplorant (-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 « désaffecté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dégommer
dégommer
54,432 corpus weight
- démunies
démunies
54,431 corpus weight
- déplorant
déplorant
54,429 corpus weight
- désaffecté
désaffecté
54,428 corpus weight
- désignera
désignera
54,427 corpus weight
- détestée
détestée
54,426 corpus weight
What this shows « désaffecté » 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 | désaffecté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.za.fɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #45,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désaffecté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around désaffecté (IPA \de.za.fɛk.te\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #45,573 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui ne sert plus, en parlant d’un lieu.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for désaffecté, with forms such as "ddésaffecté", "desaffecte", and "dséaffecté". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "désaffectée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is désaffecté, spelled D-É-S-A-F-F-E-C-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui ne sert plus, en parlant d’un lieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how désaffecté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À travers les baies vitrées de ce dernier, nous pouvions voir cependant, entre une route désaffectée, de hauts grillages et une sorte de rampe de parking protégée d’un blindage (un des blockhaus de sécurité) un gros camion tôlé surmonté d’aériens divers ; depuis de très hautes antennes HF, jusqu’aux minipointes inox des SHF, en passant par les intermédiai…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésaffecté
- desaffecte
- dséaffecté
- déasffecté
- désafecté
- désafefcté
- désaffceté
- désaffeccté
- désaffectté
- désaffecét
- désaffetcé
- désfafecté
- déssaffecté
- édsaffecté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désaffecté - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).