dirigea
\di.ʁi.ʒa\
The verdict
“dirigea” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,170. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,170
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de diriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigea · dirigea · French
dirigea · rank #18,170 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,170
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH digue
Nearest frequency peer: digue (-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 « dirigea »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- destructeur
destructeur
81,834 corpus weight
- différencie
différencie
81,833 corpus weight
- digue
digue
81,832 corpus weight
- dirigea
dirigea
81,831 corpus weight
- discutent
discutent
81,830 corpus weight
- dividende
dividende
81,829 corpus weight
What this shows « dirigea » 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 | dirigea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,170 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dirigea »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dirigea (IPA \di.ʁi.ʒa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,170 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de diriger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirigea, with forms such as "ddirigea", "diirgea", and "dirgiea". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "diriger", "dirigée", "dirigez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dirigea, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de diriger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirigea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au lieu d’appeler Rosalie, qui dans ce moment était occupée dans la cuisine à voir la cuisinière et le cocher jouer un coup difficile de la brisque, M. de Merret se dirigea vers la chambre de sa femme, à la lueur de son falot qu’il avait déposé sur la première marche de l’escalier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirigea
- diirgea
- dirgiea
- diriega
- dirigae
- diriggea
- dirrigea
- driigea
- idrigea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirigea - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).