dirigeant
\di.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\
The verdict
“dirigeant” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,852
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dirige, qui détient le pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigeant · dirigeant · French
dirigeant · rank #4,852 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,852
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH directrice
Nearest frequency peer: directrice (-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 « dirigeant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- 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
- dépense
dépense
95,146 corpus weight
What this shows « dirigeant » 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 | dirigeant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dirigeant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dirigeant (IPA \di.ʁi.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,852 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui dirige, qui détient le pouvoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirigeant, with forms such as "ddirigeant", "diirgeant", and "dirgieant". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Dirigent", "dirigeons", "dirigeants", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 dirigeant, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dirige, qui détient le pouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dirigeant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un peu plus tard elle vit que tous les amis de Maurice battaient aussi leurs femmes et comprit qu’il y avait en ce monde une loi dirigeante qui était la loi du plus fort.
Or s’il est vrai que le législateur et les classes dirigeantes exercent une influence quelconque sur la natalité en France, il l’exercent, on le sait assez, précisément dans le sens contraire à celui-ci.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirigeant
- diirgeant
- dirgieant
- diriegant
- dirigaent
- dirigeannt
- dirigeantt
- dirigeatn
- dirigenat
- diriggeant
- dirrigeant
- driigeant
- idrigeant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirigeant - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).