didactique
\di.dak.tik\
The verdict
“didactique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,983. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,983
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instructif ; explicatif ; pédagogique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-didactique · didactique · French
didactique · rank #18,983 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,983
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diamond
Nearest frequency peer: diamond (-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 « didactique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- destructions
destructions
81,021 corpus weight
- dialoguer
dialoguer
81,020 corpus weight
- diamond
diamond
81,019 corpus weight
- didactique
didactique
81,018 corpus weight
- dignement
dignement
81,017 corpus weight
- discount
discount
81,016 corpus weight
What this shows « didactique » 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 | didactique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.dak.tik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « didactique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around didactique (IPA \di.dak.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,983 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for didactique, with forms such as "ddiactique", "ddidactique", and "diadctique". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "didactiques", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is didactique, spelled D-I-D-A-C-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Instructif ; explicatif ; pédagogique.
- 2Qui appartient à un vocabulaire spécialisé.
- 3Pompeux, pédant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how didactique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Boussenard et Jules Verne ne perdent pas une occasion d’instruire : aux instants les plus critiques, ils coupent le fil du récit pour se lancer dans la description d’une plante vénéneuse, d’un habitat indigène. Lecteur, je sautais ces passages didactiques.
Officiellement, le camp iconophile l’a emporté, et l’Église célèbre en l’image un « livre des illettrés » (liber idiotarum, selon une métaphore due à Saint Grégoire) investi de trois fonctions : didactique, mnémonique et dévotionnelle […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiactique
- ddidactique
- diadctique
- didacctique
- didacitque
- didactiqeu
- didactiqque
- didactiuqe
- didactqiue
- didacttique
- didatcique
- didcatique
- diddactique
- iddactique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of didactique - 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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