désarroi
\de.za.ʁwa\
The verdict
“désarroi” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,730
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouble profond causé par les embarras et les soucis qu’amène un évènement fâcheux et inattendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desarroi · désarroi · French
désarroi · rank #18,730 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,730
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépressif
Nearest frequency peer: dépressif (-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 « désarroi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dégagement
dégagement
81,273 corpus weight
- dépressif
dépressif
81,272 corpus weight
- désarroi
désarroi
81,271 corpus weight
- désignent
désignent
81,270 corpus weight
- déviation
déviation
81,269 corpus weight
- effraction
effraction
81,268 corpus weight
What this shows « désarroi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | désarroi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.za.ʁwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désarroi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around désarroi (IPA \de.za.ʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,730 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for désarroi, with forms such as "ddésarroi", "desarroi", and "dséarroi". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is désarroi, spelled D-É-S-A-R-R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Trouble profond causé par les embarras et les soucis qu’amène un évènement fâcheux et inattendu.
- 2Désordre ; dérangement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désarroi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais quand l’Église, profitant de l’effondrement de la puissance romaine et du désarroi provoqué à travers les Gaules par les invasions barbares, s’installa dans le pays sans que nul n’y prît garde, son premier soin fut de s’assurer de la possession des terres.
Ces dernières années, tu es devenu la pâle copie de ce que tu étais, rongé par la haine et la vengeance envers ce tueur qui, à ton grand désarroi, a été libéré après un procès bâclé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésarroi
- desarroi
- dséarroi
- déasrroi
- désaroi
- désarori
- désarrio
- désraroi
- déssarroi
- édsarroi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désarroi - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).