difforme
\di.fɔʁm\
The verdict
“difforme” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,022. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,022
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est contrefait, qui n’a pas la figure, la forme ou les proportions qu’il devrait avoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-difforme · difforme · French
difforme · rank #49,022 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,022
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diphtérie
Nearest frequency peer: diphtérie (+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 « difforme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- denim
denim
50,984 corpus weight
- Devaux
Devaux
50,982 corpus weight
- difforme
difforme
50,979 corpus weight
- diphtérie
diphtérie
50,978 corpus weight
- discipliner
discipliner
50,977 corpus weight
- dissoutes
dissoutes
50,976 corpus weight
What this shows « difforme » 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 | difforme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.fɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « difforme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around difforme (IPA \di.fɔʁm\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,022 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est contrefait, qui n’a pas la figure, la forme ou les proportions qu’il devrait avoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for difforme, with forms such as "ddifforme", "dfiforme", and "diffomre". 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, "diffère", "déforme", "différée", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 difforme, spelled D-I-F-F-O-R-M-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est contrefait, qui n’a pas la figure, la forme ou les proportions qu’il devrait avoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how difforme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi s’expliquent ces superstitions, ces traditions populaires auxquelles on doit les gnomes, les nains effrayants, les fées difformes, toute cette race de bouteilles, a dit Rabelais, contenant élixirs et baumes rares.
Et Pausole observait debout les révélations successives d’un corps teinté, ferme, vivace, tandis qu’elle ouvrait tour à tour la chemisette bossue, la jupe monastique, le difforme pantalon blanc.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddifforme
- dfiforme
- diffomre
- difforem
- difformme
- difforrme
- diffrome
- difofrme
- diforme
- idfforme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of difforme - 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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