distingué
\dis.tɛ̃.ge\
The verdict
“distingué” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,569. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,569
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est au-dessus du lot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distingue · distingué · French
distingué · rank #13,569 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,569
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diner
Nearest frequency peer: diner (-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 « distingué »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- deviendrait
deviendrait
86,435 corpus weight
- devinez
devinez
86,434 corpus weight
- diner
diner
86,433 corpus weight
- distingué
distingué
86,432 corpus weight
- distribue
distribue
86,431 corpus weight
- divisés
divisés
86,430 corpus weight
What this shows « distingué » 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 | distingué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tɛ̃.ge\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distingué »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around distingué (IPA \dis.tɛ̃.ge\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,569 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for distingué, with forms such as "ddistingué", "disitngué", and "disstingué". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "distinguer", "distinguée", "distinguent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is distingué, spelled D-I-S-T-I-N-G-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est au-dessus du lot.
- 2Qui a de l’élégance.
- 3Qualifie un sous-groupe invariant sous l'action par conjugaison. En ce sens, synonyme de normal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distingué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un personnage distingué.
C’est un de nos savants les plus distingués.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistingué
- disitngué
- disstingué
- distignué
- distinggué
- distingue
- distingéu
- distinngué
- distinugé
- distnigué
- disttingué
- ditsingué
- dsitingué
- idstingué
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distingué - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "distingué", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).