David
\da.vid\
The verdict
“David” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,110. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,110
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin français ou d’autres langues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-david · David · French
David · rank #1,110 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,110
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH crise
Nearest frequency peer: crise (-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 « David »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bah
bah
98,894 corpus weight
- cinéma
cinéma
98,893 corpus weight
- crise
crise
98,892 corpus weight
- David
David
98,891 corpus weight
- Espagne
Espagne
98,890 corpus weight
- expliquer
expliquer
98,889 corpus weight
What this shows « David » 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 | David |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.vid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « David »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around David (IPA \da.vid\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #1,110 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin français ou d’autres langues.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for David, with forms such as "advid", "daivd", and "davdi". 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, "DVD", "did", "Davy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is David, spelled D-A-V-I-D.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin français ou d’autres langues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how David appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- advid
- daivd
- davdi
- davidd
- davvid
- ddavid
- dvaid
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of David - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).