détruire
\de.tʁɥiʁ\
The verdict
“détruire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,774. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,774
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Démolir, ruiner, en parlant d'un édifice, d'une construction.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detruire · détruire · French
détruire · rank #2,774 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,774
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découvre
Nearest frequency peer: découvre (-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 « détruire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disais
disais
97,230 corpus weight
- drogue
drogue
97,229 corpus weight
- découvre
découvre
97,228 corpus weight
- détruire
détruire
97,227 corpus weight
- enfer
enfer
97,226 corpus weight
- européennes
européennes
97,225 corpus weight
What this shows « détruire » 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 | détruire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tʁɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détruire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around détruire (IPA \de.tʁɥiʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,774 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for détruire, with forms such as "ddétruire", "detruire", and "dtéruire". 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, "détruit", "détruis", "détruite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 détruire, spelled D-É-T-R-U-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Démolir, ruiner, en parlant d'un édifice, d'une construction.
- 2Faire disparaître en brisant, en cassant ou en pliant ; faire qu’une chose ne soit plus, l’anéantir.
- 3Ôter la vie, en parlant des êtres vivants.
- 4Défaire complètement ce qui a été élaboré.
- 5Discréditer entièrement.
- 6Se donner la mort, se suicider.
- 7Ruiner progressivement sa santé, par des excès.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how détruire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Irpin, 70% des logements ont été endommagés ou détruits, confirme Irina Myguetko, secrétaire générale de la mairie.
Sinistres aspects où je trouve un ressouvenir de ce que fut Messine détruite par un tremblement de terre !
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétruire
- detruire
- dtéruire
- dértuire
- détriure
- détrruire
- détruier
- détruirre
- détrurie
- déttruire
- déturire
- édtruire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détruire - 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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