duc
"duc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“duc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,966) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,966
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A French duke.
Corpus desk
Index EN-duc · duc · English
duc · rank #36,966 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,966
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dressage
Nearest frequency peer: dressage (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “duc”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- dramatist
dramatist
63,037 corpus weight
- dressage
dressage
63,036 corpus weight
- duc
duc
63,035 corpus weight
- dunks
dunks
63,033 corpus weight
- dysentery
dysentery
63,032 corpus weight
- EAS
EAS
63,031 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “duc” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | duc |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “duc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for duc is neighbouring look-alikes ("dw", "Dx", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #36,966 among 3,470 “D” headwords. Gloss: "A French duke.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for duc, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dw", "Dx", "DV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French duc. Doublet of doge, duce, duke, and dux. The correct English form is duc, spelled D-U-C.
Definition
- 1A French duke.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The ambition of modern ducs and duchesses is not to appear as heroes and heroines of historic renown, but to represent gods and goddesses and fairies, buds and blossoms from the garden, starry constellations from the celestial world.
Ary Scheffer, the drawing-master of the young Orleans princesses, offered to go with Thiers and procure him an audience of the duc or duchesse, or Madame Adélaïde.
Etymology
From French duc. Doublet of doge, duce, duke, and dux.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).