drift
\dʁift\
The verdict
“drift” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,295
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terrain glaciaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drift · drift · French
drift · rank #42,295 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,295
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déambuler
Nearest frequency peer: déambuler (+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 « drift »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distraite
distraite
57,711 corpus weight
- dorsales
dorsales
57,708 corpus weight
- drift
drift
57,706 corpus weight
- déambuler
déambuler
57,705 corpus weight
- déchetterie
déchetterie
57,703 corpus weight
- décimée
décimée
57,702 corpus weight
What this shows « drift » 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 | drift |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁift\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « drift »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around drift (IPA \dʁift\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,295 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for drift, with forms such as "ddrift", "dirft", and "drfit". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "droit", "drive", "drink", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 drift, spelled D-R-I-F-T.
Definition
- 1Terrain glaciaire.
- 2Dérapage contrôlé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drift appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le terrain glaciaire qui couvre l'Écosse, les deux tiers septentrionaux de l'Angleterre et l'Irlande tout entière, ils [les géologues anglais] le désignent sous le nom de drift.
Plus intéressé par les performances sportives que par le look, il est un fan de drift. C’est l’art de transformer sa voiture pour qu’elle devienne une mécanique capable de tous les dérapages – une discipline paraît-il née sur les routes sinueuses et pentues des montagnes japonaises.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddrift
- dirft
- drfit
- drifft
- driftt
- dritf
- drrift
- rdift
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of drift - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).