discrète
\dis.kʁɛt\
The verdict
“discrète” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,148. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,148
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouche discrète, c’est-à-dire grain de beauté factice placé sous de la lèvre inférieure, vers le menton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discrete · discrète · French
discrète · rank #9,148 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,148
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Danny
Nearest frequency peer: Danny (-2 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 « discrète »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- convenu
convenu
90,858 corpus weight
- craquer
craquer
90,857 corpus weight
- dallas
dallas
90,856 corpus weight
- Danny
Danny
90,855 corpus weight
- discrète
discrète
90,853 corpus weight
- doses
doses
90,849 corpus weight
What this shows « discrète » 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 | discrète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,148 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discrète »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around discrète (IPA \dis.kʁɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,148 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mouche discrète, c’est-à-dire grain de beauté factice placé sous de la lèvre inférieure, vers le menton.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for discrète, with forms such as "ddiscrète", "dicsrète", and "disccrète". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "discute", "discrets", "discrètes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 discrète, spelled D-I-S-C-R-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Mouche discrète, c’est-à-dire grain de beauté factice placé sous de la lèvre inférieure, vers le menton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discrète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La discrète, c’était le nom donné à la mouche que les élégantes se posaient au coin du menton.
Elle avait dû se contenter d’une « discrète » pour ce soir là, même si son apparence et sa position à Boston allaient à l’encontre de ce qualificatif.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscrète
- dicsrète
- disccrète
- discrete
- discrrète
- discrtèe
- discrèet
- discrètte
- discèrte
- disrcète
- disscrète
- dsicrète
- idscrète
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discrète - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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