dessinée
\de.si.ne\
The verdict
“dessinée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,374
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dessiné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessinee · dessinée · French
dessinée · rank #8,374 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,374
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH derby
Nearest frequency peer: derby (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dessinée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Dakar
Dakar
91,630 corpus weight
- dauphin
dauphin
91,629 corpus weight
- derby
derby
91,628 corpus weight
- dessinée
dessinée
91,627 corpus weight
- disparus
disparus
91,625 corpus weight
- dispo
dispo
91,624 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dessinée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dessinée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.si.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “dessinée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dessinée (IPA \de.si.ne\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de dessiné.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessinée, with forms such as "ddessinée", "desinée", and "desisnée". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "destiné", "dessins", "destinée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dessinée, spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dessiné.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddessinée
- desinée
- desisnée
- dessinee
- dessineé
- dessinnée
- dessiéne
- dessniée
- dsesinée
- edssinée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessinée - 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dessinée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "dessinée". Here's where to go from here.
- "dessinée" maps to 15 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "destiné". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #8,374 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.