distants
\dis.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“distants” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,779
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de distant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distants · distants · French
distants · rank #32,779 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,779
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disparaissait
Nearest frequency peer: disparaissait (-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 « distants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dickens
Dickens
67,225 corpus weight
- discutions
discutions
67,224 corpus weight
- disparaissa…
disparaissait
67,223 corpus weight
- distants
distants
67,222 corpus weight
- DNA
DNA
67,221 corpus weight
- dormaient
dormaient
67,219 corpus weight
What this shows « distants » 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 | distants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around distants (IPA \dis.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,779 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de distant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for distants, with forms such as "ddistants", "disatnts", and "disstants". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "distincts", "disant", "distant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is distants, spelled D-I-S-T-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de distant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romain détacha le mancheron de cuir, l’attacha à la roue afin que le navire conservât sa route, tout droit, parallèlement à la côte africaine dont ils étaient distants d’une trentaine de milles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistants
- disatnts
- disstants
- distannts
- distanst
- distantss
- distantts
- distatns
- distnats
- disttants
- ditsants
- dsitants
- idstants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distants - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).