dessinant
\de.si.nɑ̃\
The verdict
“dessinant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,057
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de dessiner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessinant · dessinant · French
dessinant · rank #34,057 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,057
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH denier
Nearest frequency peer: denier (-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 « dessinant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dattes
dattes
65,948 corpus weight
- Deneuve
Deneuve
65,946 corpus weight
- denier
denier
65,945 corpus weight
- dessinant
dessinant
65,944 corpus weight
- digère
digère
65,942 corpus weight
- discographie
discographie
65,940 corpus weight
What this shows « dessinant » 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 | dessinant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.si.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dessinant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dessinant (IPA \de.si.nɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,057 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de dessiner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessinant, with forms such as "ddessinant", "desinant", and "desisnant". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dessinent", "dessina", "désirant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dessinant, spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de dessiner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dessinant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le vent soufflant sur la poudre lui avait copieusement enfariné le buste et le visage, dessinant un masque de guerre papouasien grandissant exagérément ses yeux lumineux comme des bornes de flipper.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddessinant
- desinant
- desisnant
- dessiannt
- dessinannt
- dessinantt
- dessinatn
- dessinnant
- dessinnat
- dessniant
- dsesinant
- edssinant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessinant - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).