dialecte
\dja.lɛkt\
The verdict
“dialecte” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,408
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proche parent d’une langue dominante ou officielle mais qui s’en distingue et qui, avec cette langue dominante, étaient autrefois variétés régionales l’une de l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dialecte · dialecte · French
dialecte · rank #17,408 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,408
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diabolique
Nearest frequency peer: diabolique (-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 « dialecte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- days
days
82,597 corpus weight
- DD
DD
82,596 corpus weight
- diabolique
diabolique
82,594 corpus weight
- dialecte
dialecte
82,593 corpus weight
- dissimulé
dissimulé
82,592 corpus weight
- Dreyfus
Dreyfus
82,591 corpus weight
What this shows « dialecte » 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 | dialecte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.lɛkt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dialecte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dialecte (IPA \dja.lɛkt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,408 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 dialecte, with forms such as "dailecte", "ddialecte", and "diaelcte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "directe", "dialectes", "diabète", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dialecte, spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Proche parent d’une langue dominante ou officielle mais qui s’en distingue et qui, avec cette langue dominante, étaient autrefois variétés régionales l’une de l’autre.
- 2Variété particulière d’une langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dialecte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La seconde question qui se présente est celle-ci : en quoi le dialecte morvandeau se distingue-t-il des autres dialectes ? À dire vrai, il ne se sépare guère du dialecte bourguignon dont il peut être considéré comme une sous-division.
Ce qui fait qu’une langue se dissout en dialectes mutuellement incompréhensibles, ce n’est ni la distance ni le passage du temps, c’est l’absence de communications. Le latin ne s’est transformé en langues-filles que lorsque l’administration romaine s’est effondrée et que les communautés qui parlaient latin se sont retrouvées isolées.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dailecte
- ddialecte
- diaelcte
- dialcete
- dialeccte
- dialecet
- dialectte
- dialetce
- diallecte
- dilaecte
- idalecte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dialecte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).