Design
\di:ˈzaɪ̯n\
The verdict
“Design” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Design.
Corpus desk
Index FR-design · Design · French
Design · rank #3,604 · 9 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,604
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dates
Nearest frequency peer: dates (-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 « Design »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contenant
contenant
96,400 corpus weight
- corresponda…
correspondant
96,399 corpus weight
- dates
dates
96,398 corpus weight
- Design
Design
96,397 corpus weight
- documentaire
documentaire
96,396 corpus weight
- explosion
explosion
96,394 corpus weight
What this shows « Design » 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 | Design |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di:ˈzaɪ̯n\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Design »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Design (IPA \di:ˈzaɪ̯n\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Design.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Design, with forms such as "ddesign", "deisgn", and "desgin". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "désir", "devin", "dessin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Design, spelled D-E-S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1Design.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesign
- deisgn
- desgin
- desiggn
- designn
- desing
- dessign
- dseign
- edsign
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Design - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Design", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).