dessina
\de.si.na\
The verdict
“dessina” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,595. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,595
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dessiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessina · dessina · French
dessina · rank #49,595 · 8 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,595
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diapositives
Nearest frequency peer: diapositives (+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 « dessina »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- demanderez
demanderez
50,409 corpus weight
- descendaient
descendaient
50,408 corpus weight
- dessina
dessina
50,406 corpus weight
- diapositives
diapositives
50,405 corpus weight
- digitalisat…
digitalisation
50,404 corpus weight
- dissert
dissert
50,403 corpus weight
What this shows « dessina » 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 | dessina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.si.na\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dessina »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dessina (IPA \de.si.na\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,595 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dessiner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessina, with forms such as "ddessina", "desina", and "desisna". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "destin", "destiné", "dessins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct French form is dessina, spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dessiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dessina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aldo serra encore plus fort son trophée provoquant un léger craquement, une micro-fissure se dessina sur la couture ventrale de l’animal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddessina
- desina
- desisna
- dessian
- dessinna
- dessnia
- dsesina
- edssina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessina - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).