2
\də\
The verdict
“2” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #99) as a symbol. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #99
- frequency rank, French
- 15
- “2” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utilisé pour représenter les sons \də\, \dœ\ et \dø\.
Corpus desk
Index FR-2 · 2 · French
2 · rank #99 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #99
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 15
- PHOTO-FINISH 1
Nearest frequency peer: 1 (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 2 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- autre
autre
99,905 corpus weight
- France
France
99,904 corpus weight
- 1
1
99,903 corpus weight
- 2
2
99,902 corpus weight
- rien
rien
99,901 corpus weight
- dire
dire
99,900 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 2 » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 2 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Symbol |
| IPA | \də\ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #99 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 2 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 2 is neighbouring look-alikes ("2e", "2d", …), not just typos; it is asymbol pronounced \də\. Frequency #99 among 15 “2” headwords. Gloss: "Utilisé pour représenter les sons \də\, \dœ\ et \dø\.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for 2, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "2e", "2d", "2A", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is 2, spelled 2.
Definition
- 1Utilisé pour représenter les sons \də\, \dœ\ et \dø\.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 2 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
demain → 2main
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.