différents
\di.fe.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“différents” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #737
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plusieurs et distincts les uns des autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-differents · différents · French
différents · rank #737 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #737
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demi
Nearest frequency peer: demi (-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 « différents »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bientôt
bientôt
99,267 corpus weight
- chemin
chemin
99,266 corpus weight
- demi
demi
99,265 corpus weight
- différents
différents
99,264 corpus weight
- directeur
directeur
99,263 corpus weight
- espace
espace
99,262 corpus weight
What this shows « différents » 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 | différents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.fe.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « différents »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around différents (IPA \di.fe.ʁɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #737 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Plusieurs et distincts les uns des autres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for différents, with forms such as "ddifférents", "dfiférents", and "differents". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "différent", "différend", "différence", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is différents, spelled D-I-F-F-É-R-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Plusieurs et distincts les uns des autres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how différents appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi tous les esprits doivent avoir quelques inclinations, de même que les corps ont différents mouvements.
Revenu à Paris en 1798, il fut employé à différents travaux littéraires et politiques par M. de Talleyrand, ministre des relations extérieures, et concourut à la rédaction du Messager du soir, et à celle de l’Argus, journal anglais auquel travaillait aussi Barère et Goldsmitz, et dont le ministère faisait les frais.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifférents
- dfiférents
- differents
- diffréents
- difféernts
- différennts
- différenst
- différentss
- différentts
- différetns
- différnets
- différrents
- diféfrents
- diférents
- idfférents
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of différents - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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