détestais
\de.tɛs.tɛ\
The verdict
“détestais” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,367. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,367
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de détester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detestais · détestais · French
détestais · rank #36,367 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,367
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démocratiser
Nearest frequency peer: démocratiser (-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 « détestais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- défoncés
défoncés
63,639 corpus weight
- dégagez
dégagez
63,638 corpus weight
- démissions
démissions
63,636 corpus weight
- démocratiser
démocratiser
63,635 corpus weight
- détestais
détestais
63,634 corpus weight
- embauchée
embauchée
63,632 corpus weight
What this shows « détestais » 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 | détestais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tɛs.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,367 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détestais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around détestais (IPA \de.tɛs.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,367 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for détestais, with forms such as "ddétestais", "detestais", and "dtéestais". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "détestes", "détestait", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is détestais, spelled D-É-T-E-S-T-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de détester.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de détester.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétestais
- detestais
- dtéestais
- déetstais
- détesatis
- détesstais
- détestaiss
- détestasi
- détestias
- détesttais
- détetsais
- détsetais
- déttestais
- édtestais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détestais - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "détestais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).