despotisme
\dɛs.pɔ.tism\
The verdict
“despotisme” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,821. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,821
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de gouverner du despote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-despotisme · despotisme · French
despotisme · rank #42,821 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,821
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH densification
Nearest frequency peer: densification (-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 « despotisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Demers
Demers
57,183 corpus weight
- demies
demies
57,182 corpus weight
- densificati…
densification
57,181 corpus weight
- despotisme
despotisme
57,180 corpus weight
- DGCCRF
DGCCRF
57,179 corpus weight
- diatribe
diatribe
57,177 corpus weight
What this shows « despotisme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | despotisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.pɔ.tism\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « despotisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around despotisme (IPA \dɛs.pɔ.tism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,821 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for despotisme, with forms such as "ddespotisme", "depsotisme", and "desoptisme". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is despotisme, spelled D-E-S-P-O-T-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Manière de gouverner du despote.
- 2Toute sorte d’autorité absolue, oppressive, tyrannique, qu’on s’arroge, qu’on exerce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how despotisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Despotisme vient du mot δεσπότης, qui signifie maître. Il y a despotisme toutes les fois que les hommes ont des maîtres, c’est-à-dire sont soumis à la volonté arbitraire d’autres hommes.
Il y avait quelque chose d’enivrant dans ces embrassades fréquentes, données et reçues, […]. C’est qu’on sortait du despotisme, et que pour quelques instans on entrait dans la liberté !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddespotisme
- depsotisme
- desoptisme
- despoitsme
- despotimse
- despotisem
- despotismme
- despotissme
- despotsime
- despottisme
- desppotisme
- desptoisme
- desspotisme
- dsepotisme
- edspotisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of despotisme - 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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