détruit

\de.tʁɥi\

/\de.tʁɥi\/ verb

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The verdict

“détruit” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,875
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de détruire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-detruit · détruit · French

détruit · rank #2,875 · 11 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,875
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH drapeau

Nearest frequency peer: drapeau (-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 « détruit »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « détruit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

détruit vs devrait
57% similar
détruit vs détruite
88% similar
détruit vs détruits
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for détruit
PropertyValue
Headworddétruit
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\de.tʁɥi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#2,875
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « détruit »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.détruitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « drapeau » (#2,874), « Eric » (#2,876), « dite » (#2,873). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « détruit » est au #2,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around détruit (IPA \de.tʁɥi\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,875 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 détruit, with forms such as "ddétruit", "detruit", and "dtéruit". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "devrait", "détruite", "détruits", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 détruit, spelled D-É-T-R-U-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier de détruire.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de détruire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how détruit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Terme ultime d’une interrogation à laquelle, comme d’habitude, Flaubert n’apporte pas de solution, mais à quoi Maupassant répond (et cela aussi c’est déflaubertiser) : le livre va au néant - ou au feu -, car l’ouvrage qui se feuillette tout seul dans “Le Horla” sera détruit dans l’incendie sur lequel se clôt le récit.
  2. On détruit, on nettoie, on re-détruit, on re-nettoie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddétruit
  • detruit
  • dtéruit
  • dértuit
  • détriut
  • détrruit
  • détruitt
  • détruti
  • déttruit
  • déturit
  • édtruit

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of détruit - 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.

ddétruit1detruit1dtéruit2dértuit2détriut2détrruit1détruitt1détruti2
Edit distance from "détruit"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "détruit"?
"détruit" is spelled D-É-T-R-U-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \de.tʁɥi\.
What does "détruit" mean?
As a verb, "détruit" means: Participe passé masculin singulier de détruire.
What words are commonly confused with "détruit"?
"détruit" is commonly confused with "devrait", "détruite", "détruits". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "détruit"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "détruit" is \de.tʁɥi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "détruit" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "détruit", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

drapeau#2,874invités#2,882citoyen#2,866paradis#2,890

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

messieurs11 variantsappareils11 variantsanciennes11 variantsutilisés11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list