détriment
\de.tʁi.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“détriment” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,291. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,291
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dommage, préjudice, désavantage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detriment · détriment · French
détriment · rank #6,291 · 15 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,291
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défendu
Nearest frequency peer: défendu (-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 « détriment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donnés
donnés
93,713 corpus weight
- dormi
dormi
93,712 corpus weight
- défendu
défendu
93,711 corpus weight
- détriment
détriment
93,710 corpus weight
- education
education
93,709 corpus weight
- envoyez
envoyez
93,708 corpus weight
What this shows « détriment » 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 | détriment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tʁi.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détriment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around détriment (IPA \de.tʁi.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,291 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for détriment, with forms such as "ddétriment", "detriment", and "dtériment". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "détruisent", "détient", "dérivent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 détriment, spelled D-É-T-R-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Dommage, préjudice, désavantage.
- 2Résidus de la désagrégation d’un matériau.
- 3Restes (dépouille mortelle).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détriment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où irait-on, si, sous le prétexte du bonheur général, on engraissait le consommateur au détriment du producteur ?
Entre autres, on y allègue que des informations "qui peuvent être démontrées fausses" ont été propagées par les avocats de Donald Trump et le réseau Fox et certains de ses animateurs, au détriment de ces deux sociétés, entre autres qu’elles auraient été fondées grâce à de l’argent des régimes cubains et vénézuéliens pour produire des machines à voler les…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétriment
- detriment
- dtériment
- dértiment
- détirment
- détriemnt
- détrimennt
- détrimentt
- détrimetn
- détrimment
- détrimnet
- détrmient
- détrriment
- déttriment
- édtriment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détriment - 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
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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).