desserte
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,417
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
desserte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Meuble ou table où l’on met ce que l’on a desservi. Pronounced \de.sɛʁt\. Often confused with désuète and dissert.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desserte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for desserte is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.sɛʁt\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,417 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for desserte, with forms such as "ddesserte", "desesrte", and "desseret". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "désuète", "dissert", "desserts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is desserte, spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Meuble ou table où l’on met ce que l’on a desservi.
- 2Viande, mets qu’on a desservis, qu’on a ôtés de dessus la table.
- 3Ensemble des fonctions attachées au service d’une cure, d’une chapelle, etc. S’emploie surtout en parlant du service que fait un prêtre.
- 4Fait de desservir un lieu, arrêt pour permettre la montée et descente des passagers.
- 5Transport qui dessert.
- 6Voie ou ensemble de voies permettant l’accès à une parcelle, à un massif.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddesserte,desesrte,desseret,desserrte,dessertte,dessetre,dessrete,dseserte,edsserte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for desserte
Misspelling Variants of "desserte"
Frequency rank: #20,417 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index: