désolé
\de.zɔ.le\
The verdict
“désolé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,390. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,390
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désert ; ravagé ; triste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desole · désolé · French
désolé · rank #1,390 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,390
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH européen
Nearest frequency peer: européen (+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 « désolé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- capitaine
capitaine
98,614 corpus weight
- capitale
capitale
98,613 corpus weight
- désolé
désolé
98,611 corpus weight
- européen
européen
98,610 corpus weight
- faveur
faveur
98,609 corpus weight
- front
front
98,608 corpus weight
What this shows « désolé » 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 | désolé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.zɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « désolé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around désolé (IPA \de.zɔ.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,390 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for désolé, with forms such as "ddésolé", "desole", and "dséolé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Dole", "drôle", "dévoué", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is désolé, spelled D-É-S-O-L-É.
Definition
- 1Désert ; ravagé ; triste.
- 2Affligé ; éploré.
- 3Dans l'emploi du participe passé comme adjectif, « être désolé » est un substitut atténué du quasi-synonyme « s'excuser » (voir ci-dessous la section “interjection”, ainsi que l'article consacré au diminutif déso).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how désolé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faisait un temps affreux ; la nature, désolée, se fondait en pluie, de cette pluie froide et torrentueuse qui annonce l’hiver.
Mais notre amour survit comme un éclatant perce-neige ; éternel, il sourit quand tout est désolé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddésolé
- desole
- dséolé
- déoslé
- désloé
- désollé
- désoél
- déssolé
- édsolé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of désolé - 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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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).