divorce
\di.vɔʁs\
The verdict
“divorce” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,024
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dissolution judiciaire du mariage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divorce · divorce · French
divorce · rank #5,024 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,024
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandant
Nearest frequency peer: demandant (-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 « divorce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courants
courants
94,980 corpus weight
- crainte
crainte
94,979 corpus weight
- demandant
demandant
94,978 corpus weight
- divorce
divorce
94,977 corpus weight
- donna
donna
94,976 corpus weight
- dramatique
dramatique
94,974 corpus weight
What this shows « divorce » 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 | divorce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.vɔʁs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « divorce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around divorce (IPA \di.vɔʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,024 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for divorce, with forms such as "ddivorce", "diovrce", and "divocre". 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, "divorcer", "divorcés", "divorcée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is divorce, spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Dissolution judiciaire du mariage.
- 2Séparation de deux choses qui peuvent être liées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divorce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si je l'eusse deviné, je n'aurais pas manqué de m'élever avec toute la force de mon ministère sacré contre cette odieuse pratique, laquelle a pour but d'établir un cas de divorce en simulant que le mariage n'a eu lieu que par suite de violence matérielle exercée contre une des parties contractantes.
Nous connaissons déjà les noces d’argent, d’or et de diamant : de l’autre coté de l’Atlantique, où, par suite de la facilité du divorce, les longs mariages sont plus rares, la mode, à présent, est de célébrer, dès après dix ans de vie conjugale, ses noces d’étain.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddivorce
- diovrce
- divocre
- divorcce
- divorec
- divorrce
- divroce
- divvorce
- dviorce
- idvorce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of divorce - 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 "divorce", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).