distincts
\dis.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“distincts” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,753
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de distinct.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distincts · distincts · French
distincts · rank #11,753 · 15 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,753
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dessinateur
Nearest frequency peer: dessinateur (-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 « distincts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- croyons
croyons
88,251 corpus weight
- créatrice
créatrice
88,250 corpus weight
- dessinateur
dessinateur
88,249 corpus weight
- distincts
distincts
88,248 corpus weight
- droites
droites
88,246 corpus weight
- dédicace
dédicace
88,245 corpus weight
What this shows « distincts » 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 | distincts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #11,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distincts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around distincts (IPA \dis.tɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,753 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de distinct.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for distincts, with forms such as "ddistincts", "disitncts", and "disstincts". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "districts", "distinct", "distants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 distincts, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de distinct.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how distincts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le type annellé s’oppose au précédent; il est dépourvu de nasse, mais possède (du moins en principe, car une évolution régressive les a souvent rudimentarisés ou supprimés) un ou plusieurs anneaux apicaux ; on les voit distincts ou soudés, et ils sont amyloïdes ou non.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistincts
- disitncts
- disstincts
- disticnts
- distinccts
- distincst
- distinctss
- distinctts
- distinncts
- distintcs
- distnicts
- disttincts
- ditsincts
- dsitincts
- idstincts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distincts - 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).