dirigeable
\di.ʁi.ʒabl\
The verdict
“dirigeable” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,751. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,751
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ballon pouvant être dirigé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigeable · dirigeable · French
dirigeable · rank #38,751 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,751
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dieter
Nearest frequency peer: dieter (-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 « dirigeable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- devinette
devinette
61,253 corpus weight
- dF
dF
61,252 corpus weight
- dieter
dieter
61,251 corpus weight
- dirigeable
dirigeable
61,250 corpus weight
- dirigeaient
dirigeaient
61,249 corpus weight
- distancer
distancer
61,248 corpus weight
What this shows « dirigeable » 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 | dirigeable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #38,751 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dirigeable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dirigeable (IPA \di.ʁi.ʒabl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,751 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ballon pouvant être dirigé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirigeable, with forms such as "ddirigeable", "diirgeable", and "dirgieable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dirigeante", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dirigeable, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ballon pouvant être dirigé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dirigeable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dirigeable commençait à se livrer à des exploits de jiu-jitsu atmosphérique, et Bert se trouva balloté dans une obscurité pluvieuse où il ne distinguait autre chose qu’un brouillard qui se déversait tout autour de lui.
Au début de juin 1928, survint le naufrage du dirigeable « Italia » à son retour du pôle.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirigeable
- diirgeable
- dirgieable
- diriegable
- dirigaeble
- dirigeabble
- dirigeabel
- dirigeablle
- dirigealbe
- dirigebale
- diriggeable
- dirrigeable
- driigeable
- idrigeable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirigeable - 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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