discernement
\di.sɛʁ.nə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“discernement” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,109. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,109
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faculté de l’esprit qui sert à distinguer les choses, à séparer les questions, à en juger sainement, à apprécier la valeur intellectuelle et morale des gens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discernement · discernement · French
discernement · rank #16,109 · 19 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,109
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendance
Nearest frequency peer: descendance (-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 « discernement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- curie
curie
83,895 corpus weight
- dem
dem
83,894 corpus weight
- descendance
descendance
83,893 corpus weight
- discernement
discernement
83,892 corpus weight
- disputent
disputent
83,891 corpus weight
- distinct
distinct
83,890 corpus weight
What this shows « discernement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discernement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sɛʁ.nə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #16,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discernement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around discernement (IPA \di.sɛʁ.nə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,109 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Faculté de l’esprit qui sert à distinguer les choses, à séparer les questions, à en juger sainement, à apprécier la valeur intellectuelle et morale des gens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for discernement, with forms such as "ddiscernement", "dicsernement", and "disccernement". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is discernement, spelled D-I-S-C-E-R-N-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Faculté de l’esprit qui sert à distinguer les choses, à séparer les questions, à en juger sainement, à apprécier la valeur intellectuelle et morale des gens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discernement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a traqué et tué sans relâche. Ces massacres se sont faits sans discernement. Les petits, les femelles pleines n'ont même pas été épargnés.
Je ne l’ai rencontré que trois ou quatre fois, assez pour reconnaître un esprit tout ensemble avisé et de faible discernement, je veux dire prodigieusement influençable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscernement
- dicsernement
- disccernement
- discenrement
- discerenment
- discerneemnt
- discernemennt
- discernementt
- discernemetn
- discernemment
- discernemnet
- discernmeent
- discernnement
- discerrnement
- discrenement
- disecrnement
- disscernement
- dsicernement
- idscernement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discernement - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).