Darwin
\daʁ.win\
The verdict
“Darwin” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,852
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille anglais, connu par Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
Corpus desk
Index FR-darwin · Darwin · French
Darwin · rank #16,852 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,852
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crocodile
Nearest frequency peer: crocodile (-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 « Darwin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- covoiturage
covoiturage
83,152 corpus weight
- cramer
cramer
83,151 corpus weight
- crocodile
crocodile
83,150 corpus weight
- Darwin
Darwin
83,149 corpus weight
- DH
DH
83,148 corpus weight
- diarrhée
diarrhée
83,147 corpus weight
What this shows « Darwin » 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 | Darwin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \daʁ.win\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Darwin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Darwin (IPA \daʁ.win\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,852 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille anglais, connu par Charles Darwin (1809-1882).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Darwin, with forms such as "adrwin", "dariwn", and "darrwin". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dawn", "drain", "Dario", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Darwin, spelled D-A-R-W-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille anglais, connu par Charles Darwin (1809-1882).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adrwin
- dariwn
- darrwin
- darwinn
- darwni
- darwwin
- dawrin
- ddarwin
- drawin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Darwin - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).