directoire
\di.ʁɛk.twaʁ\
The verdict
“directoire” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,981. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,981
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Corpus desk
Index FR-directoire · directoire · French
directoire · rank #9,981 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,981
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH culotte
Nearest frequency peer: culotte (-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 « directoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croirait
croirait
90,023 corpus weight
- cube
cube
90,022 corpus weight
- culotte
culotte
90,021 corpus weight
- directoire
directoire
90,020 corpus weight
- disponibili…
disponibilité
90,019 corpus weight
- dorée
dorée
90,018 corpus weight
What this shows « directoire » 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 | directoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛk.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,981 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « directoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around directoire (IPA \di.ʁɛk.twaʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,981 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for directoire, with forms such as "ddirectoire", "dierctoire", and "dircetoire". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "director", "directory", "directrice", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is directoire, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how directoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le détective regarda curieusement les deux dames qui se confondaient en saluts vaguement directoires. Elles faisaient de grands plongeons devant lui, faisant bruisser leurs longues et antiques robes de soie noire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirectoire
- dierctoire
- dircetoire
- direcctoire
- direcotire
- directiore
- directoier
- directoirre
- directorie
- directtoire
- diretcoire
- dirrectoire
- driectoire
- idrectoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of directoire - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).