diablo
\ˈdja.blo\
The verdict
“diablo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le Diable (Satan).
Corpus desk
Index FR-diablo · diablo · French
diablo · rank #25,967 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,967
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deviez
Nearest frequency peer: deviez (-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 « diablo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- deviez
deviez
74,035 corpus weight
- diablo
diablo
74,034 corpus weight
- diff
diff
74,033 corpus weight
- dilatation
dilatation
74,032 corpus weight
- dino
dino
74,031 corpus weight
- Diouf
Diouf
74,030 corpus weight
What this shows « diablo » 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 | diablo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdja.blo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #25,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diablo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around diablo (IPA \ˈdja.blo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,967 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for diablo, with forms such as "daiblo", "ddiablo", and "diabblo". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dial", "Diallo", "Dabo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 diablo, spelled D-I-A-B-L-O.
Definition
- 1Le Diable (Satan).
- 2Diable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- daiblo
- ddiablo
- diabblo
- diabllo
- diabol
- dialbo
- dibalo
- idablo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diablo - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "diablo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).