diffusé
\di.fy.ze\
The verdict
“diffusé” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,322. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,322
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de diffuser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diffuse · diffusé · French
diffusé · rank #4,322 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,322
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH créateur
Nearest frequency peer: créateur (-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 « diffusé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conformément
conformément
95,682 corpus weight
- créateur
créateur
95,680 corpus weight
- diffusé
diffusé
95,679 corpus weight
- donnera
donnera
95,678 corpus weight
- Dose
Dose
95,677 corpus weight
- défenseur
défenseur
95,675 corpus weight
What this shows « diffusé » 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 | diffusé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.fy.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diffusé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around diffusé (IPA \di.fy.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,322 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de diffuser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for diffusé, with forms such as "ddiffusé", "dfifusé", and "diffsué". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "diffuser", "diffusée", "diffusés", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is diffusé, spelled D-I-F-F-U-S-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de diffuser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diffusé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’immense répartition du conte 425 et des formes associées interdit de même toute localisation pour le passage du mythe au conte, en admettant même - ce que je tiens pour probable - qu’il se soit opéré une seule fois, et de là diffusé, puis re-partagé en variantes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiffusé
- dfifusé
- diffsué
- diffuse
- diffussé
- diffués
- difufsé
- difusé
- idffusé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diffusé - 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 "diffusé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).