D8
\de ɥit\
The verdict
“D8” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,506) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,506
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dé à huit faces, très souvent en forme d’octaèdre régulier, utilisé dans un jeu de rôle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d8 · D8 · French
D8 · rank #23,506 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,506
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céramiques
Nearest frequency peer: céramiques (-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 « D8 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- crêtes
crêtes
76,498 corpus weight
- cédant
cédant
76,497 corpus weight
- céramiques
céramiques
76,496 corpus weight
- D8
D8
76,495 corpus weight
- damn
damn
76,494 corpus weight
- Daniels
Daniels
76,493 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « D8 » 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 | D8 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de ɥit\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #23,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « D8 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for D8 is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \de ɥit\. Frequency #23,506 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Dé à huit faces, très souvent en forme d’octaèdre régulier, utilisé dans un jeu de rôle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for D8, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is D8, spelled D-8.
Definition
- 1Dé à huit faces, très souvent en forme d’octaèdre 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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.