directe
\di.ʁɛkt\
The verdict
“directe” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,067. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,067
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de direct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-directe · directe · French
directe · rank #3,067 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH destiné
Nearest frequency peer: destiné (-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 « directe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- critères
critères
96,937 corpus weight
- croyez
croyez
96,936 corpus weight
- destiné
destiné
96,935 corpus weight
- directe
directe
96,934 corpus weight
- disons
disons
96,933 corpus weight
- dizaines
dizaines
96,932 corpus weight
What this shows « directe » 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 | directe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛkt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « directe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around directe (IPA \di.ʁɛkt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,067 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de direct.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for directe, with forms such as "ddirecte", "diercte", and "dircete". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "dureté", "dirent", "directs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is directe, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de direct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how directe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour arriver à obtenir de la religieuse augustine la soumission complète et directe et réaliser, au costume près, une sorte de réforme telle qu’on la rêve, il faudrait non pas laïciser, mais déconventualiser les hôpitaux, ne tenir compte que de la valeur individuelle des servantes des pauvres, les placer à la tête des services en leur en laissant la respo…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirecte
- diercte
- dircete
- direccte
- direcet
- directte
- diretce
- dirrecte
- driecte
- idrecte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of directe - 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 "directe", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).