Descartes
\de.kaʁt\
The verdict
“Descartes” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,905. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,905
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descartes · Descartes · French
Descartes · rank #14,905 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,905
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dam
Nearest frequency peer: dam (-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 « Descartes »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- curry
curry
85,099 corpus weight
- curtis
curtis
85,098 corpus weight
- dam
dam
85,097 corpus weight
- Descartes
Descartes
85,096 corpus weight
- DG
DG
85,095 corpus weight
- distinctions
distinctions
85,093 corpus weight
What this shows « Descartes » 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 | Descartes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.kaʁt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Descartes »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Descartes (IPA \de.kaʁt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,905 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Descartes, with forms such as "ddescartes", "decsartes", and "desacrtes". 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, "désertes", "descentes", "désarmés", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Descartes, spelled D-E-S-C-A-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département d’Indre-et-Loire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Descartes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Début septembre deux mille onze, nous aménageons, dans la bonne humeur, dans un appartement F3, dans la belle ville de Descartes en Indre et Loire, du nom du philosophe qui y a vu le jour. Après une année difficile où j’ai dû lutter contre une dépression liée à l’isolement social et géographique, j’espère trouver dans cette ville au riche patrimoine cultu…
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescartes
- decsartes
- desacrtes
- descarets
- descarrtes
- descartess
- descartse
- descarttes
- descatres
- desccartes
- descrates
- desscartes
- dsecartes
- edscartes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Descartes - 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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