descendante

\de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\

/\de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“descendante” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,908
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est de la même famille et d’une génération postérieure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-descendante · descendante · French

descendante · rank #21,908 · 17 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #21,908
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Depardieu

Nearest frequency peer: Depardieu (-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 « descendante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « descendante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

descendante vs descendent
82% similar
descendante vs descendants
91% similar
descendante vs descendant
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for descendante
PropertyValue
Headworddescendante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\
Letters11
Frequency rank#21,908
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendante »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).descendantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Depardieu » (#21,907), « dentifrice » (#21,906), « discrètes » (#21,910). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « descendante » est au #21,908. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around descendante (IPA \de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,908 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendante, with forms such as "ddescendante", "decsendante", and "desccendante". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "descendent", "descendants", "descendant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is descendante, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est de la même famille et d’une génération postérieure.
  2. 2
    Ce qui tire son origine de ce qui existait précédemment.
  3. 3
    Celle qui descend, qui tire son origine d’une personne ou groupe de personnes.
  4. 4
    Partie d’un glyphe sous la ligne de base.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how descendante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les charmes quelque peu fanés de la descendante des Pignon-Mouillet n’étaient plus tels qu’ils attirassent encore irrésistiblement le mâle impétueux qu’était resté le vieux militaire.
  2. Issue du mariage de François de Brantes et d'Aymone de Faucigny-Lucinge, elle-même descendante du duc de Berry – fils du roi Charles X –, Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing puisera dans ce haut lignage des codes qui lui faciliteront son rôle de représentation.

Synonyms

hampe inférieurejambage

This word in other languages

descender(English)Unterlänge(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddescendante
  • decsendante
  • desccendante
  • descednante
  • descenadnte
  • descendanet
  • descendannte
  • descendantte
  • descendatne
  • descenddante
  • descendnate
  • descenndante
  • descnedante
  • desecndante
  • desscendante
  • dsecendante
  • edscendante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendante - 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.

ddescendante1decsendante2desccendante1descednante2descenadnte2descendanet2descendannte1descendantte1
Edit distance from "descendante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "descendante"?
"descendante" is spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\.
What does "descendante" mean?
As a noun, "descendante" means: Celle qui est de la même famille et d’une génération postérieure.
What words are commonly confused with "descendante"?
"descendante" is commonly confused with "descendent", "descendants", "descendant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "descendante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "descendante" is \de.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "descendante" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descendante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

disparaisse#21,911cosmopolite#21,896Cisjordanie#21,885cathédrales#21,882

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

approximation17 variantsinsuffisants17 variantsséparatiste17 variantsprospective17 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list