désertion
\de.zɛʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“désertion” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,664. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,664
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de déserter ; résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desertion · désertion · French
désertion · rank #33,664 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,664
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désertificati…
Nearest frequency peer: désertification (-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 « désertion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dérouleront
dérouleront
66,340 corpus weight
- désapprouve
désapprouve
66,339 corpus weight
- désertifica…
désertification
66,338 corpus weight
- désertion
désertion
66,337 corpus weight
- economy
economy
66,336 corpus weight
- Eisenhower
Eisenhower
66,334 corpus weight
What this shows « désertion » 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 | désertion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.zɛʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #33,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désertion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around désertion (IPA \de.zɛʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,664 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de déserter ; résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for désertion, with forms such as "ddésertion", "desertion", and "dséertion". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "détention", "détection", "déception", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is désertion, spelled D-É-S-E-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de déserter ; résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désertion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son trésor est vide. Son armée, mal recrutée, mal équipée, mal disciplinée, absolument démoralisée par ses défaites récentes, est réduite à fort peu de chose par les licenciements forcés et les désertions.
Il faut donc trouver un argument-massue, un argument capable de semer le doute dans l’âme des ouvriers, d’ébranler leur confiance, d’amener des défections de plus en plus nombreuses, puis des désertions massives.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésertion
- desertion
- dséertion
- déesrtion
- déseriton
- déserrtion
- désertino
- désertionn
- désertoin
- déserttion
- désetrion
- désretion
- déssertion
- édsertion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désertion - 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).