descendez
\dɛ.sɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“descendez” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,637
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendez · descendez · French
descendez · rank #33,637 · 14 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,637
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deo
Nearest frequency peer: deo (-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 « descendez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dai
dai
66,367 corpus weight
- Daudet
Daudet
66,366 corpus weight
- deo
deo
66,365 corpus weight
- descendez
descendez
66,364 corpus weight
- desperate
desperate
66,363 corpus weight
- DGSE
DGSE
66,362 corpus weight
What this shows « descendez » 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 | descendez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around descendez (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,637 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendez, with forms such as "ddescendez", "decsendez", and "desccendez". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "descente", "descendu", "descends", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is descendez, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how descendez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maintenant descendez en tapinois et jactez quelques secondes dans l’ombre avant de vous faire repérer : le temps que la bagnole se dégage et dégage.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendez
- decsendez
- desccendez
- descednez
- descenddez
- descendezz
- descendze
- descenedz
- descenndez
- descnedez
- desecndez
- desscendez
- dsecendez
- edscendez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendez - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "descendez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).