dalton

\dal.tɔn\

/\dal.tɔn\/ noun

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The verdict

“dalton” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#22,827
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de masse atomique unifiée. Le symbole est Da.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dalton · dalton · French

dalton · rank #22,827 · 9 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #22,827
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH cumuler

Nearest frequency peer: cumuler (-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 « dalton »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dalton » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dalton vs Dawson
50% similar
dalton vs dicton
67% similar
dalton vs dillon
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dalton
PropertyValue
Headworddalton
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dal.tɔn\
Letters6
Frequency rank#22,827
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dalton »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.daltonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cumuler » (#22,826), « Darius » (#22,828), « cubains » (#22,825). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dalton » est au #22,827. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around dalton (IPA \dal.tɔn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,827 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de masse atomique unifiée. Le symbole est Da.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dalton, with forms such as "adlton", "dallton", and "dalotn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Dawson", "dicton", "dillon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dalton, spelled D-A-L-T-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité de masse atomique unifiée. Le symbole est Da.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dalton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un dalton est avec une assez bonne précision la masse d’un atome d’hydrogène, la valeur exacte étant 1,00794 dalton.

Synonyms

unité de masse atomique unifiée

This word in other languages

dalton(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • adlton
  • dallton
  • dalotn
  • daltno
  • daltonn
  • daltton
  • datlon
  • ddalton
  • dlaton

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dalton - 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.

adlton2dallton1dalotn2daltno2daltonn1daltton1datlon2ddalton1
Edit distance from "dalton"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dalton"?
"dalton" is spelled D-A-L-T-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \dal.tɔn\.
What does "dalton" mean?
As a noun, "dalton" means: Unité de masse atomique unifiée. Le symbole est Da.
What words are commonly confused with "dalton"?
"dalton" is commonly confused with "Dawson", "dicton", "dillon". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dalton"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dalton" is \dal.tɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dalton" come from?
"dalton" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dalton", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Darius#22,828Deezer#22,829doutez#22,831cruise#22,820

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list