descend
\dɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“descend” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,858. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,858
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descend · descend · French
descend · rank #5,858 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,858
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandait
Nearest frequency peer: demandait (-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 « descend »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crises
crises
94,147 corpus weight
- céréales
céréales
94,145 corpus weight
- demandait
demandait
94,144 corpus weight
- descend
descend
94,143 corpus weight
- distinguer
distinguer
94,142 corpus weight
- définitive
définitive
94,140 corpus weight
What this shows « descend » 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 | descend |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descend »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around descend (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,858 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de descendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for descend, with forms such as "ddescend", "decsend", and "desccend". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "détend", "descente", "descendu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 descend, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descend appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On désentaque lorsque l’on a fabriqué une longueur de velours égale à la circonférence de l’ensouple, moins la largeur OP du couvercle ; l’étoffe fabriquée descend alors par TV dans la boîte destinée à la recevoir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescend
- decsend
- desccend
- descedn
- descendd
- descennd
- descned
- desecnd
- desscend
- dsecend
- edscend
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descend - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).