destroyer
\dɛs.tʁwa.je\
The verdict
“destroyer” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,278. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,278
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire de guerre de moyen tonnage, armé de canons, de torpilles et de missiles, destiné à la protection des escadres, des porte-avions et des convois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-destroyer · destroyer · French
destroyer · rank #42,278 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,278
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deng
Nearest frequency peer: deng (-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 « destroyer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- demeuraient
demeuraient
57,726 corpus weight
- deng
deng
57,724 corpus weight
- destroyer
destroyer
57,723 corpus weight
- deviendrais
deviendrais
57,722 corpus weight
- diamètres
diamètres
57,721 corpus weight
- diet
diet
57,720 corpus weight
What this shows « destroyer » 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 | destroyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.tʁwa.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « destroyer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around destroyer (IPA \dɛs.tʁwa.je\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,278 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Navire de guerre de moyen tonnage, armé de canons, de torpilles et de missiles, destiné à la protection des escadres, des porte-avions et des convois.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for destroyer, with forms such as "ddestroyer", "desrtoyer", and "desstroyer". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "détrôner", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is destroyer, spelled D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Navire de guerre de moyen tonnage, armé de canons, de torpilles et de missiles, destiné à la protection des escadres, des porte-avions et des convois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how destroyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vers 4 heures, j’aperçois de nouveau la terre après avoir barré toute la nuit ; je passe au petit jour près d’un destroyer américain et entre dans le port Saint-Georges.
Ce fut la vraie guerre, je connus avec mon équipage les longues alertes, le survol incessant des « Marauders » de l'U.S. Navy, à qui rien n'échappait, sous le marmitage des grenades sous-marines que nous envoyaient en grappes serrées les destroyers des flottes de surface.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddestroyer
- desrtoyer
- desstroyer
- destoryer
- destroeyr
- destroyerr
- destroyre
- destroyyer
- destrroyer
- destryoer
- desttroyer
- detsroyer
- dsetroyer
- edstroyer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of destroyer - 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.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).