dark
\daʁk\
The verdict
“dark” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,809. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,809
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sombre, en parlant d’une ambiance ou de l’esprit d’une œuvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dark · dark · French
dark · rank #7,809 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,809
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH convictions
Nearest frequency peer: convictions (-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 « dark »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- contestation
contestation
92,195 corpus weight
- contradicti…
contradiction
92,194 corpus weight
- convictions
convictions
92,193 corpus weight
- dark
dark
92,192 corpus weight
- demandais
demandais
92,191 corpus weight
- diplômé
diplômé
92,190 corpus weight
What this shows « dark » 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 | dark |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \daʁk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dark »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dark (IPA \daʁk\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,809 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sombre, en parlant d’une ambiance ou de l’esprit d’une œuvre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dark, with forms such as "adrk", "dakr", and "darkk". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dr", "dur", "der", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dark, spelled D-A-R-K.
Definition
- 1Sombre, en parlant d’une ambiance ou de l’esprit d’une œuvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dark appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un album introspectif, très vrai, très dark, et écrit, composé par une jeune fille dans la vingtaine, avec tout c’qui s’était passé les années avant, c’est-à-dire ma vie de jeune chanteuse controversée et de fille d’immigrant dans la ville de Québec.
… la musique soutenant l’oeuvre est une savante mixture de classique et de moderne, où se côtoient un électro ambiant plutôt dark et les élans romanesques du quatuor à cordes de Schubert.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrk
- dakr
- darkk
- darrk
- ddark
- drak
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dark - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).