dessous
\də.su\
The verdict
“dessous” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,359. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,359
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la partie, à la face inférieure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dessous · dessous · French
dessous · rank #1,359 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,359
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH contexte
Nearest frequency peer: contexte (-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 « dessous »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- centrale
centrale
98,645 corpus weight
- chaud
chaud
98,644 corpus weight
- contexte
contexte
98,643 corpus weight
- dessous
dessous
98,642 corpus weight
- disait
disait
98,641 corpus weight
- extérieur
extérieur
98,640 corpus weight
What this shows « dessous » 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 | dessous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \də.su\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dessous »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dessous (IPA \də.su\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #1,359 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dans la partie, à la face inférieure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dessous, with forms such as "ddessous", "desosus", and "desous". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dessus", "dissous", "dissout", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dessous, spelled D-E-S-S-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Dans la partie, à la face inférieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dessous appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Devant chaque porte se trouvait une botte de paille, pour empêcher le froid de passer dessous.
On le cherchait sur le lit, il était dessous.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddessous
- desosus
- desous
- dessosu
- dessouss
- dessuos
- dsesous
- edssous
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dessous - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dessous", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).