dissuader
\di.sɥa.de\
The verdict
“dissuader” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,851
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détourner de l’exécution d’un dessein ou d’une résolution prise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissuader · dissuader · French
dissuader · rank #15,851 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,851
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disparues
Nearest frequency peer: disparues (-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 « dissuader »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cynique
cynique
84,154 corpus weight
- diaspora
diaspora
84,152 corpus weight
- disparues
disparues
84,151 corpus weight
- dissuader
dissuader
84,150 corpus weight
- distant
distant
84,149 corpus weight
- distraire
distraire
84,148 corpus weight
What this shows « dissuader » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissuader |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɥa.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissuader »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dissuader (IPA \di.sɥa.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,851 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Détourner de l’exécution d’un dessein ou d’une résolution prise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissuader, with forms such as "ddissuader", "dissauder", and "dissuadder". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dissuader, spelled D-I-S-S-U-A-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Détourner de l’exécution d’un dessein ou d’une résolution prise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissuader appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’éventualité de la gifle dissuade l'enfant de déchirer les livres de la bibliothèque paternelle, comme l’éventualité de la contravention dissuade l'automobiliste de stationner, dans la zone bleue, au delà de l'heure marquée au cadran.
[…] ; par ses déprédations, le pigeon — si charmant soit-il - pose lui aussi un gros problème - humain -, non contraire, semble-t-il, aux règles de la SPA, le procédé de dépigeonnisation des mêmes Laboratoires AUFRA parait à cet égard digne d'être noté. Il ne s'agit plus, en effet, de massacrer d'innocents volatiles qui n'en peuvent mais..., mais de les d…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissuader
- dissauder
- dissuadder
- dissuaderr
- dissuadre
- dissuaedr
- dissudaer
- disuader
- disusader
- dsisuader
- idssuader
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissuader - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).