descendit
\dɛ.sɑ̃.di\
The verdict
“descendit” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,269
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendit · descendit · French
descendit · rank #37,269 · 14 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,269
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH célébrés
Nearest frequency peer: célébrés (-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 « descendit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cégeps
cégeps
62,735 corpus weight
- célestin
célestin
62,734 corpus weight
- célébrés
célébrés
62,733 corpus weight
- descendit
descendit
62,732 corpus weight
- desktop
desktop
62,731 corpus weight
- dharma
dharma
62,730 corpus weight
What this shows « descendit » 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 | descendit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.di\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #37,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around descendit (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃.di\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,269 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de descendre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendit, with forms such as "ddescendit", "decsendit", and "desccendit". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "descendu", "descends", "descendre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 descendit, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de descendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how descendit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De Mouy descendit de cheval, jeta la bride aux mains de son laquais, s’achemina vers le guichet, se fit reconnaître de la sentinelle, introduisit La Mole dans le château.
Le curé fit un bref discours, il évoqua le « gardien des corps et des âmes » que fut le fossoyeur défunt, puis à l’aide de cordes, un système qui avait fait ses preuves, on descendit le cercueil au fond du trou et tous les gens présents songèrent à ce jour futur où ce serait leur tout d’emménager pour l’éternité, ou du moins en principe, car il arrivait q…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendit
- decsendit
- desccendit
- descednit
- descenddit
- descenditt
- descendti
- descenidt
- descenndit
- descnedit
- desecndit
- desscendit
- dsecendit
- edscendit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendit - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).