distincte
\dis.tɛ̃kt\
The verdict
“distincte” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,450. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,450
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de distinct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distincte · distincte · French
distincte · rank #14,450 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,450
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disputes
Nearest frequency peer: disputes (-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 « distincte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dentelle
dentelle
85,555 corpus weight
- disputes
disputes
85,552 corpus weight
- distincte
distincte
85,551 corpus weight
- dodo
dodo
85,550 corpus weight
- doive
doive
85,549 corpus weight
- donnaient
donnaient
85,548 corpus weight
What this shows « distincte » 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 | distincte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃kt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distincte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around distincte (IPA \dis.tɛ̃kt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,450 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de distinct.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for distincte, with forms such as "ddistincte", "disitncte", and "disstincte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "distincts", "distingué", "distinctes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is distincte, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-C-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de distinct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distincte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est à cause de cette spontanéité qu’il peut, comme nous avons vu dans l’analyse de la conscience propre, se distinguer en soi et se replier sur soi-même dans sa conscience et sa réflexion intérieure; et c’est par ce caractère de spontanéité qu’il peut, pour ainsi dire, tout spontanéiser, concevoir tout en distinction et en séparation, analyser tout en s…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistincte
- disitncte
- disstincte
- disticnte
- distinccte
- distincet
- distinctte
- distinncte
- distintce
- distnicte
- disttincte
- ditsincte
- dsitincte
- idstincte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distincte - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).