dixit
\dik.sit\
The verdict
“dixit” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,115. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,115
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sert à introduire l’auteur d'une citation, celle-ci étant implicitement présentée comme exacte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dixit · dixit · French
dixit · rank #17,115 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,115
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distraction
Nearest frequency peer: distraction (-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 « dixit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Diderot
Diderot
82,889 corpus weight
- disco
disco
82,888 corpus weight
- distraction
distraction
82,887 corpus weight
- dixit
dixit
82,886 corpus weight
- dogs
dogs
82,885 corpus weight
- donneurs
donneurs
82,884 corpus weight
What this shows « dixit » 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 | dixit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \dik.sit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,115 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dixit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around dixit (IPA \dik.sit\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #17,115 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sert à introduire l’auteur d'une citation, celle-ci étant implicitement présentée comme exacte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for dixit, with forms such as "ddixit", "diixt", and "dixitt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "doit", "droit", "dudit", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dixit, spelled D-I-X-I-T.
Definition
- 1Sert à introduire l’auteur d'une citation, celle-ci étant implicitement présentée comme exacte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dixit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt attaquant, tantôt défenseur ou service-volleyeur, Alcaraz développe le concept du « joueur total », dixit Patrick Mouratoglou.
« Ce n’est pas à la loi de définir l’histoire », dixit Jacques Chirac.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddixit
- diixt
- dixitt
- dixti
- dixxit
- dxiit
- idxit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dixit - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).