divorcée
\di.vɔʁ.se\
The verdict
“divorcée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,408
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui a divorcé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divorcee · divorcée · French
divorcée · rank #27,408 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,408
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH div
Nearest frequency peer: div (-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 « divorcée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disposée
disposée
72,596 corpus weight
- distractions
distractions
72,595 corpus weight
- div
div
72,594 corpus weight
- divorcée
divorcée
72,593 corpus weight
- douanier
douanier
72,592 corpus weight
- doucher
doucher
72,591 corpus weight
What this shows « divorcée » 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 | divorcée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.vɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « divorcée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around divorcée (IPA \di.vɔʁ.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,408 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme qui a divorcé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for divorcée, with forms such as "ddivorcée", "diovrcée", and "divocrée". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "divorcer", "divorcés", "divorcent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is divorcée, spelled D-I-V-O-R-C-É-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui a divorcé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how divorcée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant aux divorcées, je les fuyais depuis un choc que j’avais reçu dans mon enfance. Quand j’avais sept ans, mon père, un jour, était rentré en froissant de rage La Petite Gironde. « Quelle honte ! Le roi d’Angleterre abdique pour épouser une divorcée !… » La divorcée devint pour moi la Mangeuse d’empires. Je crus la reconnaître, plus tard, en lisant l’Ap…
Sa voisine octogénaire lui présenta sa petite-fille, une divorcée du même âge qu’elle, qui devint une amie avec laquelle sortir, puis une confidente avec qui partager ses moments de doute et ses instants de victoire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddivorcée
- diovrcée
- divocrée
- divorccée
- divorcee
- divorceé
- divorrcée
- divoréce
- divrocée
- divvorcée
- dviorcée
- idvorcée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of divorcée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).