dash
\daʃ\
The verdict
“dash” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,033
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mouvement rapide et bref, effectué par un personnage de jeu vidéo dans une direction déterminée. L'action est généralement faite pour esquiver une attaque ou pour parcourir rapidement une courte di...
Corpus desk
Index FR-dash · dash · French
dash · rank #27,033 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,033
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Delle
Nearest frequency peer: Delle (+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 « dash »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cyanure
cyanure
72,971 corpus weight
- cygnes
cygnes
72,970 corpus weight
- dash
dash
72,968 corpus weight
- Delle
Delle
72,967 corpus weight
- destructrice
destructrice
72,966 corpus weight
- diabétique
diabétique
72,965 corpus weight
What this shows « dash » 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 | dash |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dash »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dash (IPA \daʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,033 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mouvement rapide et bref, effectué par un personnage de jeu vidéo dans une direction déterminée. L'action est généralement faite pour esquiver une attaque ou pour parcourir rapidement une courte di...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dash, with forms such as "adsh", "dahs", and "dashh". 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, "Ds", "DH", "des", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dash, spelled D-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Mouvement rapide et bref, effectué par un personnage de jeu vidéo dans une direction déterminée. L'action est généralement faite pour esquiver une attaque ou pour parcourir rapidement une courte distance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelqu'un me dit S'IL VOUS PLAÎT comment faire un dash avec une toile sur Spiderman.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adsh
- dahs
- dashh
- dassh
- ddash
- dsah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dash - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).