détestez
\de.tɛs.te\
The verdict
“détestez” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,005
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de détester.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detestez · détestez · French
détestez · rank #35,005 · 13 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,005
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détrôner
Nearest frequency peer: détrôner (+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 « détestez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déplu
déplu
64,999 corpus weight
- désactive
désactive
64,998 corpus weight
- détestez
détestez
64,996 corpus weight
- détrôner
détrôner
64,995 corpus weight
- détériore
détériore
64,994 corpus weight
- dévie
dévie
64,993 corpus weight
What this shows « détestez » 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 | détestez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tɛs.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détestez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around détestez (IPA \de.tɛs.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,005 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for détestez, with forms such as "ddétestez", "detestez", and "dtéestez". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "déteste", "détente", "détecte", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is détestez, spelled D-É-T-E-S-T-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de détester.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de détester.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétestez
- detestez
- dtéestez
- déetstez
- détesetz
- détesstez
- détestezz
- détesttez
- détestze
- détetsez
- détsetez
- déttestez
- édtestez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détestez - 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 "détestez", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).