desservant
\de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“desservant” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,401
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui dessert une cure, une chapelle, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desservant · desservant · French
desservant · rank #27,401 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,401
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demanderais
Nearest frequency peer: demanderais (-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 « desservant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Davos
Davos
72,603 corpus weight
- demanderais
demanderais
72,601 corpus weight
- desservant
desservant
72,600 corpus weight
- diapason
diapason
72,599 corpus weight
- diaporama
diaporama
72,598 corpus weight
- disposée
disposée
72,596 corpus weight
What this shows « desservant » 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 | desservant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « desservant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around desservant (IPA \de.sɛʁ.vɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,401 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for desservant, with forms such as "ddesservant", "deservant", and "desesrvant". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "desservent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is desservant, spelled D-E-S-S-E-R-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Celui qui dessert une cure, une chapelle, etc.
- 2Toute personne chargée d’une fonction dans un organisme, dans un service, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how desservant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une rumeur sourde annonça l’arrivée de M. Karadeuc, le desservant de la paroisse.
En mai 1785, il sollicite, au nom des habitants d’Orfeuil — mais à leur insu — un secours de 12.000 livres, sur les revenus de la province, pour la construction de l’église ou de la chapelle projetée, et pour le logement du desservant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesservant
- deservant
- desesrvant
- desseravnt
- desserrvant
- desservannt
- desservantt
- desservatn
- desservnat
- desservvant
- dessevrant
- dessrevant
- dseservant
- edsservant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desservant - 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
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