désaffection
\de.za.fɛk.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“désaffection” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,307. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,307
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perte de l’affection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desaffection · désaffection · French
désaffection · rank #42,307 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,307
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépouillée
Nearest frequency peer: dépouillée (-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 « désaffection »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- démuni
démuni
57,697 corpus weight
- dénoncées
dénoncées
57,696 corpus weight
- dépouillée
dépouillée
57,695 corpus weight
- désaffection
désaffection
57,694 corpus weight
- désiraient
désiraient
57,693 corpus weight
- détachant
détachant
57,692 corpus weight
What this shows « désaffection » 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 | désaffection |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.za.fɛk.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #42,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désaffection »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around désaffection (IPA \de.za.fɛk.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,307 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Perte de l’affection.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for désaffection, with forms such as "ddésaffection", "desaffection", and "dséaffection". 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, "désinfection", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is désaffection, spelled D-É-S-A-F-F-E-C-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Perte de l’affection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désaffection appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mesures prises par le gouvernement produisirent la désaffection des citoyens.
La désaffection des Français (de France) pour une partie de leur patrimoine linguistique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésaffection
- desaffection
- dséaffection
- déasffection
- désafection
- désafefction
- désaffcetion
- désaffecction
- désaffeciton
- désaffectino
- désaffectionn
- désaffectoin
- désaffecttion
- désaffetcion
- désfafection
- déssaffection
- édsaffection
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désaffection - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "désaffection", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).