dessiner

\de.si.ne\

/\de.si.ne\/ verb

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The verdict

“dessiner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,300
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Représenter, reproduire par le dessin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dessiner · dessiner · French

dessiner · rank #7,300 · 10 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,300
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dernièrement

Nearest frequency peer: dernièrement (-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 « dessiner »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dessiner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dessiner vs dossier
75% similar
dessiner vs destiné
63% similar
dessiner vs dessins
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dessiner
PropertyValue
Headworddessiner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.si.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,300
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dessiner »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dessinerse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dernièrement » (#7,299), « Diamant » (#7,301), « dead » (#7,298). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dessiner » est au #7,300. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around dessiner (IPA \de.si.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,300 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessiner, with forms such as "ddessiner", "desiner", and "desisner". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "dossier", "destiné", "dessins", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dessiner, spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Représenter, reproduire par le dessin.
  2. 2
    Tracer le contour, exprimer les formes des figures d’un tableau.
  3. 3
    Tracer sur le terrain un jardin ou un parc.
  4. 4
    Élaborer et rédiger les plans d'un vaisseau, d'un aéronef ou d'un astronef.
  5. 5
    Indiquer ou faire ressortir les formes du corps.
  6. 6
    Paraître ou se détacher plus ou moins nettement sur un fond quelconque.
  7. 7
    Prendre, acquérir des contours plus saillants, plus prononcés.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dessiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quelles boules ! dit Bixiou à du Bruel, quelle belle caricature si on les dessinait sous forme de raies, de dorades, et de claquarts (nom vulgaire d’un coquillage) dansant une sarabande !
  2. Dessiner une figure d’après nature.

This word in other languages

draw(English)dibujar(Español)zeichnen(Deutsch)desenhar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddessiner
  • desiner
  • desisner
  • dessienr
  • dessinerr
  • dessinner
  • dessinre
  • dessnier
  • dsesiner
  • edssiner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessiner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddessiner1desiner1desisner2dessienr2dessinerr1dessinner1dessinre2dessnier2
Edit distance from "dessiner"

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

How do you spell "dessiner"?
"dessiner" is spelled D-E-S-S-I-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \de.si.ne\.
What does "dessiner" mean?
As a verb, "dessiner" means: Représenter, reproduire par le dessin.
What words are commonly confused with "dessiner"?
"dessiner" is commonly confused with "dossier", "destiné", "dessins". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dessiner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dessiner" is \de.si.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dessiner" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dessiner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Diamant10 variantscréent10 variantsclaires10 variantsbaseball10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list