Daech
\da.ɛʃ\
The verdict
“Daech” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,241. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,241
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation armée djihadiste qui a proclamé le 29 juin 2014 le rétablissement du califat sur les territoires irakiens et syriens qu’elle contrôle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daech · Daech · French
Daech · rank #14,241 · 7 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,241
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cruelle
Nearest frequency peer: cruelle (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Daech »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Covid
Covid
85,764 corpus weight
- croyaient
croyaient
85,762 corpus weight
- cruelle
cruelle
85,761 corpus weight
- Daech
Daech
85,760 corpus weight
- dany
dany
85,759 corpus weight
- Dax
Dax
85,757 corpus weight
What this shows « Daech » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Daech |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.ɛʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Daech »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Daech (IPA \da.ɛʃ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,241 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisation armée djihadiste qui a proclamé le 29 juin 2014 le rétablissement du califat sur les territoires irakiens et syriens qu’elle contrôle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Daech, with forms such as "adech", "daceh", and "daecch". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "DEC", "déçu", "deco", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Daech, spelled D-A-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1Organisation armée djihadiste qui a proclamé le 29 juin 2014 le rétablissement du califat sur les territoires irakiens et syriens qu’elle contrôle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Daech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, en trois semaines d’opérations, l’état-major des armées n’a annoncé que deux frappes contre des sites logistiques utilisés par Daech, les 19 et 25 septembre.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adech
- daceh
- daecch
- daechh
- daehc
- ddaech
- deach
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Daech - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).