Davis

name

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,491

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Davis is aFrenchname. It means: Nom de famille anglophone. It ranks #6,491 in French word frequency. Often confused with dois and days.

Key facts for Davis
PropertyValue
HeadwordDavis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,491
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Davis in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Davis is 5 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #6,491 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille anglophone.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Davis, with forms such as "advis", "daivs", and "daviss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dois", "days", "Davy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Davis, spelled D-A-V-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille anglophone.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: advis,daivs,daviss,davsi,davvis,ddavis,dvais

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Davis

Misspelling Variants of "Davis"

advis5daivs5daviss6davsi5davvis6ddavis6dvais5
Misspelling Variants of "Davis"

Frequency rank: #6,491 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Davis"?
"Davis" is spelled D-A-V-I-S.
What does "Davis" mean?
As a name, "Davis" means: Nom de famille anglophone.
What words are commonly confused with "Davis"?
"Davis" is commonly confused with "dois", "days", "Davy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Davis" come from?
"Davis" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.