descendons
\dɛ.sɑ̃.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“descendons” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,693. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,693
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-descendons · descendons · French
descendons · rank #46,693 · 16 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,693
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH derme
Nearest frequency peer: derme (-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 « descendons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- deacon
deacon
53,311 corpus weight
- derme
derme
53,309 corpus weight
- descendons
descendons
53,308 corpus weight
- dictent
dictent
53,306 corpus weight
- différencié…
différenciées
53,305 corpus weight
- dindons
dindons
53,304 corpus weight
What this shows « descendons » 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 | descendons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #46,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « descendons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around descendons (IPA \dɛ.sɑ̃.dɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,693 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for descendons, with forms such as "ddescendons", "decsendons", and "desccendons". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "descends", "descendus", "défendons", and more, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is descendons, spelled D-E-S-C-E-N-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de descendre.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de descendre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddescendons
- decsendons
- desccendons
- descednons
- descenddons
- descendnos
- descendonns
- descendonss
- descendosn
- descenndons
- descenodns
- descnedons
- desecndons
- desscendons
- dsecendons
- edscendons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of descendons - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).