dizaine
\di.zɛn\
The verdict
“dizaine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,399. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,399
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de dix unités.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dizaine · dizaine · French
dizaine · rank #3,399 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,399
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diversité
Nearest frequency peer: diversité (-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 « dizaine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- destin
destin
96,605 corpus weight
- discussions
discussions
96,604 corpus weight
- diversité
diversité
96,603 corpus weight
- dizaine
dizaine
96,602 corpus weight
- déchets
déchets
96,601 corpus weight
- dépasse
dépasse
96,600 corpus weight
What this shows « dizaine » 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 | dizaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.zɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,399 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dizaine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dizaine (IPA \di.zɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,399 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dizaine, with forms such as "ddizaine", "diazine", and "dizaien". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "draine", "domaine", "dizaines", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dizaine, spelled D-I-Z-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe de dix unités.
- 2La position du chiffre des multiples de dix dans l'écriture d'un nombre.
- 3Environ dix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dizaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une dizaine de mille.
Le chapelet catholique comporte cinq dizaines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddizaine
- diazine
- dizaien
- dizainne
- dizanie
- diziane
- dizzaine
- dziaine
- idzaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dizaine - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dizaine", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).