Dreyfus
/ˈdɹeɪfəs/
"dreyfus" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dreyfus” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,765. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,765
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dreyfus · Dreyfus · English
Dreyfus · rank #26,765 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,765
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH downer
Nearest frequency peer: downer (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Dreyfus”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Dorchester
Dorchester
73,239 corpus weight
- Dorsey
Dorsey
73,238 corpus weight
- downer
downer
73,237 corpus weight
- Dreyfus
Dreyfus
73,236 corpus weight
- dribble
dribble
73,235 corpus weight
- Dutchman
Dutchman
73,233 corpus weight
What this shows “Dreyfus” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dreyfus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈdɹeɪfəs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Dreyfus”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dreyfus (IPA /ˈdɹeɪfəs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #26,765 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A surname.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dreyfus, with forms such as "ddreyfus", "deryfus", and "drefyus". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Dreyfus, spelled D-R-E-Y-F-U-S.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddreyfus
- deryfus
- drefyus
- dreyffus
- dreyfsu
- dreyfuss
- dreyufs
- dreyyfus
- drreyfus
- dryefus
- rdeyfus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dreyfus - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).