discerner
\di.sɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“discerner” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,933
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voir distinctement un objet de manière à ne pas le confondre avec un ou plusieurs autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discerner · discerner · French
discerner · rank #24,933 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,933
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirk
Nearest frequency peer: dirk (-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 « discerner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- devils
devils
75,071 corpus weight
- diffusant
diffusant
75,070 corpus weight
- dirk
dirk
75,069 corpus weight
- discerner
discerner
75,068 corpus weight
- discutez
discutez
75,067 corpus weight
- dispenser
dispenser
75,066 corpus weight
What this shows « discerner » 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 | discerner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discerner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around discerner (IPA \di.sɛʁ.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,933 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for discerner, with forms such as "ddiscerner", "dicserner", and "disccerner". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "disperser", "décerner", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is discerner, spelled D-I-S-C-E-R-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Voir distinctement un objet de manière à ne pas le confondre avec un ou plusieurs autres.
- 2Se rendre un compte exact des qualités par lesquelles une chose ou une personne diffère d’une autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discerner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans le regard de ces gens, il discerna clairement de la crainte, presque de la méfiance.
Maintenant d’ailleurs que le regard se faisait à l'obscurité, on discernait la vitre dépolie du soupirail, vaguement illuminé chaque fois que se ravivait un bec de gaz assez lointain, dont le manchon était sans doute crevé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscerner
- dicserner
- disccerner
- discenrer
- discerenr
- discernerr
- discernner
- discernre
- discerrner
- discrener
- disecrner
- disscerner
- dsicerner
- idscerner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discerner - 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).