DellevsdeuceWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Delle is a name, deuce is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Delle” is a name and “deuce” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#37,880
“Delle” frequency rank
#31,135
“deuce” frequency rank
69015
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Delle deuce
Definition A commune in Territoire de Belfort department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, on the border with Switzerland. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Letter map: Delle vs deuce

Shared letters muted; letters that set Delle and deuce apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Delle
5 ch
deuce

Role in the sentence - Delle and deuce

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Delle is aname and deuceanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69015, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Delle is recorded at frequency rank #37,880, classified as aname. deuce is at rank #31,135, tagged as anoun, pronounced /djuːs/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 69015, this pair ranks #56,379 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Delle vs deuce

Shared letters: de. Private to "Delle": l. Private to "deuce": cu.

"Delle" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "deuce" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Delleddelle · dele · delel · dlele · edlle
  • deucedecue · deucce · deuec · duece · educe

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Delle" for "deuce" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Delle" is a name and "deuce" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "Delle" or "deuce" show up more?
"deuce" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,135 in our English list, against #37,880 for "Delle". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Delle" and "deuce".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Delle" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "deuce" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,379 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Delle" and "deuce" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Delle vs dilly". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #56,379 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list