directrice
\di.ʁɛk.tʁis\
The verdict
“directrice” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui dirige un établissement, un service, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-directrice · directrice · French
directrice · rank #4,851 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,851
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigeant
Nearest frequency peer: dirigeant (+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 « directrice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cuir
cuir
95,154 corpus weight
- CV
CV
95,153 corpus weight
- câble
câble
95,152 corpus weight
- directrice
directrice
95,150 corpus weight
- dirigeant
dirigeant
95,149 corpus weight
- Donald
Donald
95,148 corpus weight
What this shows « directrice » 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 | directrice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛk.tʁis\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « directrice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around directrice (IPA \di.ʁɛk.tʁis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,851 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for directrice, with forms such as "ddirectrice", "dierctrice", and "dircetrice". 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, "directrices", "directive", "directoire", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 directrice, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T-R-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui dirige un établissement, un service, etc.
- 2Celle qui préside une séance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how directrice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après trois semaines de retraite forcée, rendue moins ennuyeuse par la présence presque continue du docteur, Lucien fit sa première sortie, et ce fut pour aller chez la directrice de la poste, la bonne mademoiselle Prichard, dévote célèbre.
Elle se souvient que la directrice de l’école de sages-femmes de la clinique bruxelloise la regarda avec surprise lorsque l’élève accoucheuse Régine lui déclara ne pas être catholique, mais Juive.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirectrice
- dierctrice
- dircetrice
- direcctrice
- direcrtice
- directirce
- directrcie
- directricce
- directriec
- directrrice
- directtrice
- diretcrice
- dirrectrice
- driectrice
- idrectrice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of directrice - 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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