distrait
\dis.tʁɛ\
The verdict
“distrait” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,116. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,116
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui n’a pas d’attention à ce qu’il dit ou à ce qu’il fait, qui n’est pas à l'écoute de ce qu’on lui dit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-distrait · distrait · French
distrait · rank #20,116 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dises
Nearest frequency peer: dises (-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 « distrait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dicter
dicter
79,888 corpus weight
- dioxyde
dioxyde
79,887 corpus weight
- dises
dises
79,886 corpus weight
- distrait
distrait
79,885 corpus weight
- donations
donations
79,884 corpus weight
- dortoir
dortoir
79,883 corpus weight
What this shows « distrait » 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 | distrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « distrait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around distrait (IPA \dis.tʁɛ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,116 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for distrait, with forms such as "ddistrait", "disrtait", and "disstrait". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "district", "distraite", "dirait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is distrait, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Qui n’a pas d’attention à ce qu’il dit ou à ce qu’il fait, qui n’est pas à l'écoute de ce qu’on lui dit.
- 2Qui dénote que l’on est distrait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how distrait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il discernait qu’il avait affaire à un personnage exceptionnellement distrait, mais il n’était pas responsable d’une pareille balourdise chez cet hurluberlu qui visait à l’élégance.
Une autre fois encore, tard, en revenant du cinéma, distrait, je butai devant le Planzpalace dans le pare-choc d'une voiture où s'était entassée toute une famille de Ripalous.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddistrait
- disrtait
- disstrait
- distarit
- distraitt
- distrati
- distriat
- distrrait
- disttrait
- ditsrait
- dsitrait
- idstrait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of distrait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "distrait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).