désolant
\de.zɔ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“désolant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,341. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,341
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui désole, qui cause une grande affliction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desolant · désolant · French
désolant · rank #26,341 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,341
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dérogations
Nearest frequency peer: dérogations (-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 « désolant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- démissionna…
démissionnaire
73,662 corpus weight
- dérogations
dérogations
73,661 corpus weight
- désolant
désolant
73,660 corpus weight
- détectée
détectée
73,659 corpus weight
- détestes
détestes
73,658 corpus weight
- effrayés
effrayés
73,657 corpus weight
What this shows « désolant » 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 | désolant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désolant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around désolant (IPA \de.zɔ.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,341 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for désolant, with forms such as "ddésolant", "desolant", and "dséolant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dévorant", "dévoilant", "désirant", 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 désolant, spelled D-É-S-O-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui désole, qui cause une grande affliction.
- 2Qui provoque simple contrariété.
- 3Qui est insupportable, ennuyeux, importun, fatigant, en parlant des personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désolant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Démentirez-vous ce fait désolant que, dans certaines fermes, l'ouvrier agricole touche une partie de son pauvre salaire sous la forme de bouteilles de blanche, c'est à dire d'eau-de-vie ?
Henri dégusta, quelques secondes, le spectacle désolant de ces ombres errantes et pataugeantes, semblables à des bêtes d'un autre âge, grouillant dans un décor diluvien.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésolant
- desolant
- dséolant
- déoslant
- désloant
- désoalnt
- désolannt
- désolantt
- désolatn
- désollant
- désolnat
- déssolant
- édsolant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désolant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).