dauphin
\do.fɛ̃\
The verdict
“dauphin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,372. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,372
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne les éditions réalisées pour Louis de France, fils de Louis XIV.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dauphin · dauphin · French
dauphin · rank #8,372 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,372
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dakar
Nearest frequency peer: Dakar (-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 « dauphin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- copier
copier
91,633 corpus weight
- cross
cross
91,632 corpus weight
- Dakar
Dakar
91,630 corpus weight
- dauphin
dauphin
91,629 corpus weight
- derby
derby
91,628 corpus weight
- dessinée
dessinée
91,627 corpus weight
What this shows « dauphin » 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 | dauphin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \do.fɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dauphin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dauphin (IPA \do.fɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,372 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui concerne les éditions réalisées pour Louis de France, fils de Louis XIV.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dauphin, with forms such as "aduphin", "dapuhin", and "dauhpin". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Dupin", "dauphins", "dauphine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dauphin, spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne les éditions réalisées pour Louis de France, fils de Louis XIV.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dauphin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Édition dauphine
Dauphin, s. & adj. En termes de Librairie : on appelle Critiques Dauphins ou scholiastes Dauphins, les Commentaires sur les anciens Auteurs Latins, qui furent entrepris par l’ordre du Roi Louis XIV pour l’usage de Monseigneur, par le conseil de M. le Duc de Montauzier, son Gouverneur, & sous la direction de Mʳˢ Bossuet & Huet ses Précepteurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aduphin
- dapuhin
- dauhpin
- dauphhin
- dauphinn
- dauphni
- daupihn
- daupphin
- ddauphin
- duaphin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dauphin - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dauphin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).