das
The verdict
“das” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,761) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,761
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sida.
Corpus desk
Index FR-das · das · French
das · rank #12,761 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,761
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Cyr
Nearest frequency peer: Cyr (-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 « das »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cultivé
cultivé
87,243 corpus weight
- Cyr
Cyr
87,241 corpus weight
- das
das
87,240 corpus weight
- Deutsche
Deutsche
87,239 corpus weight
- diffamation
diffamation
87,238 corpus weight
- digitale
digitale
87,237 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « das » 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 | das |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « das »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for das is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #12,761 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Sida.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for das, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is das, spelled D-A-S.
Definition
- 1Sida.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how das appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Artaud, y’en a plein qui pensent que c’est lui qui a ramené l’héro dans la cité, que c’est à cause de lui que Sergio et Karim ont chopé le das.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).