désastreux
\de.zas.tʁø\
The verdict
“désastreux” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,940. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,940
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui constitue un désastre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desastreux · désastreux · French
désastreux · rank #17,940 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,940
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH départementaux
Nearest frequency peer: départementaux (-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 « désastreux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dégradations
dégradations
82,064 corpus weight
- dégénéré
dégénéré
82,063 corpus weight
- département…
départementaux
82,062 corpus weight
- désastreux
désastreux
82,061 corpus weight
- détériorati…
détérioration
82,060 corpus weight
- dévoué
dévoué
82,059 corpus weight
What this shows « désastreux » 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 | désastreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.zas.tʁø\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #17,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désastreux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around désastreux (IPA \de.zas.tʁø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,940 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for désastreux, with forms such as "ddésastreux", "desastreux", and "dséastreux". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "désastre", "désastres", "désastreuse", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is désastreux, spelled D-É-S-A-S-T-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui constitue un désastre.
- 2Qui cause des désastres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désastreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Événement désastreux. — Mort désastreuse.
Je suis une maîtresse de maison désastreuse, mais je rattrape le coup en mettant tout en place à la one again.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésastreux
- desastreux
- dséastreux
- déasstreux
- désasrteux
- désasstreux
- désasterux
- désastreuxx
- désastrexu
- désastrreux
- désastruex
- désasttreux
- désatsreux
- déssastreux
- déssatreux
- édsastreux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désastreux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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