3DS
The verdict
“3DS” sits in 5 confusable pairs (corpus #20,905) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,905
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- “3” headwords
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Console de jeux portable de huitième génération développée par Nintendo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-3ds · 3DS · French
3DS · rank #20,905 · 0 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,905
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 13
- PHOTO-FINISH 2d
Nearest frequency peer: 2d (-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 « 3DS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- étui
étui
79,099 corpus weight
- 2d
2d
79,097 corpus weight
- 3DS
3DS
79,096 corpus weight
- Abitibi
Abitibi
79,095 corpus weight
- abondantes
abondantes
79,094 corpus weight
- académies
académies
79,093 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 3DS » 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 | 3DS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 3DS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 3DS is neighbouring look-alikes ("3e", "3G", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,905 among 13 “3” headwords. Gloss: "Console de jeux portable de huitième génération développée par Nintendo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for 3DS, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "3e", "3G", "3M", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is 3DS, spelled 3-D-S.
Definition
- 1Console de jeux portable de huitième génération développée par Nintendo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 3DS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme son nom l'indique, il ne s'agit plus vraiment d'une 3DS, donc, pas d'écran autostéréoscopique.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "3DS", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).