distinct
\dis.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“distinct” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,111. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,111
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est nettement séparé d’une autre, en parlant de certaines choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distinct · distinct · French
distinct · rank #16,111 · 13 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,111
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disputent
Nearest frequency peer: disputent (-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 « distinct »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- descendance
descendance
83,893 corpus weight
- discernement
discernement
83,892 corpus weight
- disputent
disputent
83,891 corpus weight
- distinct
distinct
83,890 corpus weight
- donnerais
donnerais
83,889 corpus weight
- douai
douai
83,888 corpus weight
What this shows « distinct » 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 | distinct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,111 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distinct »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around distinct (IPA \dis.tɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,111 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for distinct, with forms such as "ddistinct", "disitnct", and "disstinct". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "district", "distincts", "distincte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 distinct, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-C-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est nettement séparé d’une autre, en parlant de certaines choses.
- 2Dont la forme est bien aperçue ; qui ne paraît pas confondu avec d’autres objets.
- 3Qui est clair et net.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distinct appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir considéré le jardin potager comme distinct des autres parties en culture, je traiterai du jardin fruitier dans un chapitre particulier […].
Donc, primitivement, il y avait eu là quatre maisons distinctes qui n'en faisaient plus qu'une et qui devaient appartenir maintenant au même propriétaire.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistinct
- disitnct
- disstinct
- disticnt
- distincct
- distinctt
- distinnct
- distintc
- distnict
- disttinct
- ditsinct
- dsitinct
- idstinct
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distinct - 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).