dessert
\de.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“dessert” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,966
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mets généralement sucré habituellement servi à la fin d’un repas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessert · dessert · French
dessert · rank #5,966 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,966
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dent
Nearest frequency peer: dent (-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 « dessert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cuivre
cuivre
94,038 corpus weight
- DC
DC
94,037 corpus weight
- dent
dent
94,036 corpus weight
- dessert
dessert
94,035 corpus weight
- diplomatique
diplomatique
94,034 corpus weight
- dirigée
dirigée
94,033 corpus weight
What this shows « dessert » 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 | dessert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dessert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dessert (IPA \de.sɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,966 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessert, with forms such as "ddessert", "desesrt", and "desserrt". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "désuet", "dresser", "dissert", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dessert, spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Mets généralement sucré habituellement servi à la fin d’un repas.
- 2Moment où ce mets est sur la table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sorbet, gâteau au chocolat, tarte au pommes, crème caramel, mousse au chocolat. Je vous récite la litanie mais il n'y a qu'un dessert qui compte : nos îles flottantes. Il est impératif que vous goûtiez nos îles flottantes. Spécialité absolue.
Le but de l'étude consistait à optimaliser les propriétés sensorielles et rhéologiques des desserts lactés UHT, en recherchant les types adéquats et les quantités appropriées d’amidon et de carragénate, et en ajustant la technologie du procédé UHT direct.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddessert
- desesrt
- desserrt
- dessertt
- dessetr
- dessret
- dsesert
- edssert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessert - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).