détériorer
\de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“détériorer” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #32,391 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #32,391
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mettre en mauvais état.
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 | détériorer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,391 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “détériorer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détériorer is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #32,391 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mettre en mauvais état.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for détériorer, with forms such as "ddétériorer", "deteriorer", and "dtéériorer". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "déterrer", "détériore", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 détériorer, spelled D-É-T-É-R-I-O-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Mettre en mauvais état.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétériorer,deteriorer,dtéériorer,détréiorer,déttériorer,détéirorer,détérioerr,détériorerr,détériorre,détériorrer,détériroer,détéroirer,détérriorer,déétriorer,édtériorer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détériorer - 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.
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Using “détériorer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-É-T-É-R-I-O-R-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “déterrer” - see the side-by-side comparison. détériorer vs déterrer
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.