détériorer
\de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\
The verdict
“détériorer” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,391. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,391
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en mauvais état.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deteriorer · détériorer · French
détériorer · rank #32,391 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,391
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détonation
Nearest frequency peer: détonation (-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 « détériorer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déserteurs
déserteurs
67,613 corpus weight
- détachent
détachent
67,612 corpus weight
- détonation
détonation
67,611 corpus weight
- détériorer
détériorer
67,610 corpus weight
- déverrouill…
déverrouiller
67,609 corpus weight
- dévoilées
dévoilées
67,608 corpus weight
What this shows « détériorer » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détériorer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around détériorer (IPA \de.te.ʁjɔ.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,391 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détériorer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a laissé sa maison se détériorer.
Le temps détériore toutes choses.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).