distrait
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,116
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
distrait is anFrenchadj. It means: 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. Pronounced \dis.tʁɛ\. Often confused with district and distraite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | distrait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dis.tʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for distrait is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.tʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,116 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for distrait, with forms such as "ddistrait", "disrtait", and "disstrait". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is distrait, spelled D-I-S-T-R-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for distrait
Misspelling Variants of "distrait"
Frequency rank: #20,116 in French
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