D12
\de duz\
The verdict
“D12” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dé à douze faces, très souvent en forme de dodécaèdre régulier, utilisé dans un jeu de rôle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d12 · D12 · French
D12 · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | D12 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de duz\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
D12 is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \de duz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dé à douze faces, très souvent en forme de dodécaèdre régulier, utilisé dans un jeu de rôle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for D12, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 D12, spelled D-1-2.
Definition
- 1Dé à douze faces, très souvent en forme de dodécaèdre régulier, utilisé dans un jeu de rôle.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.