dicte
\dikt\
The verdict
“dicte” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,979. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,979
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dicter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dicte · dicte · French
dicte · rank #20,979 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,979
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dialectes
Nearest frequency peer: dialectes (-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 « dicte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dakota
Dakota
79,025 corpus weight
- devin
devin
79,024 corpus weight
- dialectes
dialectes
79,023 corpus weight
- dicte
dicte
79,022 corpus weight
- dim
dim
79,021 corpus weight
- din
din
79,020 corpus weight
What this shows « dicte » 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 | dicte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dikt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dicte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around dicte (IPA \dikt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,979 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for dicte, with forms such as "dcite", "ddicte", and "diccte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "die", "dire", "dite", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dicte, spelled D-I-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dicter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dicter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dicter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dicter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dicter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dicte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et presque toujours, à proximité de la plantation, un sorcier vient s’installer, qui attire les Noirs crédules, qui leur dicte des ordres, leur vend, non seulement des gris-gris, mais des poisons, soit pour tuer le bétail, soit pour tuer les hommes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcite
- ddicte
- diccte
- dicet
- dictte
- ditce
- idcte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dicte - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dicte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).