discount
\dis.kunt\
The verdict
“discount” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,985
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réduction du prix de vente d’un produit ou d’une marchandise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discount · discount · French
discount · rank #18,985 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,985
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dignement
Nearest frequency peer: dignement (-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 « discount »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diamond
diamond
81,019 corpus weight
- didactique
didactique
81,018 corpus weight
- dignement
dignement
81,017 corpus weight
- discount
discount
81,016 corpus weight
- dissertation
dissertation
81,015 corpus weight
- dissout
dissout
81,014 corpus weight
What this shows « discount » 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 | discount |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kunt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discount »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around discount (IPA \dis.kunt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,985 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Réduction du prix de vente d’un produit ou d’une marchandise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for discount, with forms such as "ddiscount", "dicsount", and "disccount". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dissout", "discours", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is discount, spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1Réduction du prix de vente d’un produit ou d’une marchandise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discount appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fondamentalement, le category killer est une grande surface spécialisée pratiquant un discount agressif.
Les skis sur le dos, nous longeâmes une enfilade de détaillants : l’empire du discount. Les vitrines hurlaient de laideur. La folie marchande était grotesque. La pub suintait sa méchanceté.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscount
- dicsount
- disccount
- disconut
- discounnt
- discountt
- discoutn
- discuont
- disocunt
- disscount
- dsicount
- idscount
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discount - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).