desseins
\de.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“desseins” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,309
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dessein.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desseins · desseins · French
desseins · rank #29,309 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,309
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cérébraux
Nearest frequency peer: cérébraux (-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 « desseins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cybersécuri…
cybersécurité
70,695 corpus weight
- cyborg
cyborg
70,694 corpus weight
- cérébraux
cérébraux
70,693 corpus weight
- desseins
desseins
70,692 corpus weight
- devancer
devancer
70,691 corpus weight
- dif
dif
70,690 corpus weight
What this shows « desseins » 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 | desseins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « desseins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around desseins (IPA \de.sɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,309 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de dessein.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for desseins, with forms such as "ddesseins", "deseins", and "desesins". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dessin", "dessins", "dessine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is desseins, spelled D-E-S-S-E-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dessein.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesseins
- deseins
- desesins
- desseinns
- desseinss
- desseisn
- dessenis
- dessiens
- dseseins
- edsseins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desseins - 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 "desseins", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).