détruisant
\de.tʁɥi.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“détruisant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,823. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,823
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de détruire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detruisant · détruisant · French
détruisant · rank #19,823 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,823
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH détenues
Nearest frequency peer: détenues (-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 « détruisant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- désirant
désirant
80,181 corpus weight
- détecte
détecte
80,180 corpus weight
- détenues
détenues
80,179 corpus weight
- détruisant
détruisant
80,178 corpus weight
- effervescen…
effervescence
80,176 corpus weight
- Elisa
Elisa
80,175 corpus weight
What this shows « détruisant » 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 | détruisant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.tʁɥi.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détruisant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around détruisant (IPA \de.tʁɥi.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,823 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de détruire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for détruisant, with forms such as "ddétruisant", "detruisant", and "dtéruisant". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "détruisit", "détruisent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 détruisant, spelled D-É-T-R-U-I-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de détruire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how détruisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le tueur en série se mesure au grand architecte qui a créé l'homme et dont il défait en quelque sorte le travail. Il créé en détruisant, ou plus exactement en déconstruisant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddétruisant
- detruisant
- dtéruisant
- dértuisant
- détriusant
- détrruisant
- détruiasnt
- détruisannt
- détruisantt
- détruisatn
- détruisnat
- détruissant
- détrusiant
- déttruisant
- déturisant
- édtruisant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détruisant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).