détroit
\de.tʁwa\
The verdict
“détroit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,038
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage naturel entre deux terres par lequel deux étendues marines communiquent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detroit · détroit · French
détroit · rank #11,038 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH développées
Nearest frequency peer: développées (+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 « détroit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Douglas
Douglas
88,967 corpus weight
- drama
drama
88,966 corpus weight
- dynamiques
dynamiques
88,965 corpus weight
- détroit
détroit
88,963 corpus weight
- développées
développées
88,962 corpus weight
- enchaîne
enchaîne
88,961 corpus weight
What this shows « détroit » 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 | détroit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détroit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around détroit (IPA \de.tʁwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,038 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for détroit, with forms such as "ddétroit", "detroit", and "dtéroit". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "droit", "devrait", "détruit", and more, 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 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 détroit, spelled D-É-T-R-O-I-T.
Definition
- 1Passage naturel entre deux terres par lequel deux étendues marines communiquent.
- 2Le pas de Calais, détroit de la Manche, séparant la Grande-Bretagne de l’Europe continentale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détroit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De ce côté, le rivage, capricieusement festonné, creusé de criques et d’anses, hérissé de caps aigus et de promontoires abrupts, allait se perdre dans ce confus enchevêtrement de détroits, de pertuis, de passes, qui donne aux cartes des continents polaires un si bizarre aspect.
De telles expériences seraient très risquées au Bosphore, l’homme-grenouille pouvant être entraîné par les courants très forts existant en ce détroit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétroit
- detroit
- dtéroit
- dértoit
- détorit
- détriot
- détroitt
- détroti
- détrroit
- déttroit
- édtroit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détroit - 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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).