dissuasif
\di.sɥa.zif\
The verdict
“dissuasif” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,749. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,749
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dissuade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissuasif · dissuasif · French
dissuasif · rank #39,749 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #39,749
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diogène
Nearest frequency peer: Diogène (-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 « dissuasif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- différencie…
différencient
60,255 corpus weight
- diminuera
diminuera
60,254 corpus weight
- Diogène
Diogène
60,253 corpus weight
- dissuasif
dissuasif
60,252 corpus weight
- doing
doing
60,250 corpus weight
- donuts
donuts
60,249 corpus weight
What this shows « dissuasif » 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 | dissuasif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.sɥa.zif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #39,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissuasif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dissuasif (IPA \di.sɥa.zif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,749 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui dissuade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissuasif, with forms such as "ddissuasif", "dissausif", and "dissuaisf". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dissuasion", 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 dissuasif, spelled D-I-S-S-U-A-S-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui dissuade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissuasif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour l’autrice de l’amendement voté mardi, Catherine Procaccia (LR), l’instauration d’une taxe à hauteur de 6 € par millilitre « aurait pour effet d’augmenter considérablement leur prix », et, par conséquent, aurait un effet dissuasif.
Administration très lourde, ultra-corrompue, systèmes de financement extrêmement complexes et dissuasifs pour les étrangers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissuasif
- dissausif
- dissuaisf
- dissuasfi
- dissuasiff
- dissuassif
- dissusaif
- disuasif
- disusasif
- dsisuasif
- idssuasif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissuasif - 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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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).