désirs

\de.ziʁ\

/\de.ziʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“désirs” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,819
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de désir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-desirs · désirs · French

désirs · rank #7,819 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,819
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH départemental

Nearest frequency peer: départemental (-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 « désirs »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « désirs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

désirs vs DESS
0% similar
désirs vs devis
50% similar
désirs vs dessus
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for désirs
PropertyValue
Headworddésirs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.ziʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,819
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désirs »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).désirsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « départemental » (#7,818), « détour » (#7,820), « démons » (#7,817). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « désirs » est au #7,819. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around désirs (IPA \de.ziʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,819 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de désir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for désirs, with forms such as "ddésirs", "desirs", and "dséirs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DESS", "devis", "dessus", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is désirs, spelled D-É-S-I-R-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de désir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how désirs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et ils n’ont toujours pas compris qu’on ne saurait faire céder un ministre avec du blablabla, qu’on ne saurait changer la vie sans changer celle des cons aussi, et qu’on ne saurait vivre ses désirs sans foutre en l’air ce qui les entrave !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddésirs
  • desirs
  • dséirs
  • déisrs
  • désirrs
  • désirss
  • désisr
  • désris
  • déssirs
  • édsirs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désirs - 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.

ddésirs1desirs1dséirs2déisrs2désirrs1désirss1désisr2désris2
Edit distance from "désirs"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "désirs"?
"désirs" is spelled D-É-S-I-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \de.ziʁ\.
What does "désirs" mean?
As a noun, "désirs" means: Pluriel de désir.
What words are commonly confused with "désirs"?
"désirs" is commonly confused with "DESS", "devis", "dessus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "désirs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "désirs" is \de.ziʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "désirs" come from?
"désirs" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "désirs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

détour#7,820démons#7,817Dupont#7,815exiger#7,824

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

fournis10 variantsgênant10 variantshorloge10 variantsbagages10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list