différer
\di.fe.ʁe\
The verdict
“différer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,326
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remettre à un autre temps, à plus tard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-differer · différer · French
différer · rank #26,326 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,326
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH desservi
Nearest frequency peer: desservi (-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 « différer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- deco
deco
73,677 corpus weight
- desservi
desservi
73,676 corpus weight
- différer
différer
73,675 corpus weight
- disparaîtra
disparaîtra
73,673 corpus weight
- dissensions
dissensions
73,672 corpus weight
- dominicains
dominicains
73,671 corpus weight
What this shows « différer » 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 | différer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.fe.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « différer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around différer (IPA \di.fe.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #26,326 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Remettre à un autre temps, à plus tard.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for différer, with forms such as "ddifférer", "dfiférer", and "differer". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "digérer", "diffuser", "diffère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is différer, spelled D-I-F-F-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remettre à un autre temps, à plus tard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how différer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne veux pas différer de le voir, ajoutai-je, plus longtemps que jusqu'à demain.
– Trop de choses m’intéressent. Je diffère le plus que je peux le moment où il me faudra choisir et ne plus faire que cela. – Es-ce aussi la crainte de te fixer qui te fait différer tes fiançailles ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifférer
- dfiférer
- differer
- diffréer
- difféerr
- différerr
- différre
- différrer
- diféfrer
- diférer
- idfférer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of différer - 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 "différer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).