déserter
\de.zɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“déserter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,232. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abandonner un lieu, pour quelque cause que ce soit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deserter · déserter · French
déserter · rank #40,232 · 13 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,232
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déroulaient
Nearest frequency peer: déroulaient (-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 « déserter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déporter
déporter
59,772 corpus weight
- dépositaires
dépositaires
59,771 corpus weight
- déroulaient
déroulaient
59,770 corpus weight
- déserter
déserter
59,769 corpus weight
- ecstasy
ecstasy
59,767 corpus weight
- Edinson
Edinson
59,766 corpus weight
What this shows « déserter » 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 | déserter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.zɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « déserter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around déserter (IPA \de.zɛʁ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,232 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for déserter, with forms such as "ddéserter", "deserter", and "dséerter". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "désirer", "déserts", "détecter", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is déserter, spelled D-É-S-E-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Abandonner un lieu, pour quelque cause que ce soit.
- 2Abandonner le service sans congé, en parlant des soldats et des marins.
- 3Abandonner une religion, une cause, un parti, etc.
- 4S’éloigner d’un lieu en y étant forcé par telle ou telle cause.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déserter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand nous blâmons les Bas-Alpins de déserter leur pays, ayons la franchise de nous poser cette question : et moi-même, si j'avais vingt ans, y resterais-je ?
On pouvait trouver toutes sortes de choses chez le Chinois : Alimentation et produits de première nécessité, droguerie, bazar et quincaillerie. Autres temps, autres mœurs, les clients ont déserté la boutique pour aller faire leurs courses ailleurs, dans les grandes surfaces.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddéserter
- deserter
- dséerter
- déesrter
- déseretr
- déserrter
- déserterr
- désertre
- désertter
- désetrer
- désreter
- désserter
- édserter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of déserter - 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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