discute
\dis.kyt\
The verdict
“discute” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,948. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,948
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discussion, conversation. Surtout présent dans l'expression faire ou taper la discute.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discute · discute · French
discute · rank #6,948 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,948
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dalle
Nearest frequency peer: dalle (-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 « discute »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- creux
creux
93,056 corpus weight
- cœurs
cœurs
93,055 corpus weight
- dalle
dalle
93,054 corpus weight
- discute
discute
93,053 corpus weight
- disposent
disposent
93,052 corpus weight
- déception
déception
93,051 corpus weight
What this shows « discute » 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 | discute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kyt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discute »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around discute (IPA \dis.kyt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,948 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Discussion, conversation. Surtout présent dans l'expression faire ou taper la discute.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for discute, with forms such as "ddiscute", "dicsute", and "disccute". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "disque", "dispute", "disette", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is discute, spelled D-I-S-C-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Discussion, conversation. Surtout présent dans l'expression faire ou taper la discute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how discute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je t'ai fait la discute, mon esprit était ailleurs Mes yeux dans le décolleté de ton débardeur
Il y a quand même un relou qui a réussi à m'emmerder en se mettant à moins d'un mètre dans le jacuzzi désert et en insistant pour taper la discute. C'est le cas à chaque fois que j'y vais sans mon chéri.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscute
- dicsute
- disccute
- disctue
- discuet
- discutte
- disscute
- disucte
- dsicute
- idscute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discute - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).