Dawson
The verdict
“Dawson” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,414
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île chilienne située au large et au sud de la Ville de Punta Arenas, Environ 300 personnes y vivent pour une sur superficie de 1290 km², ce qui en fait la 9^(ème) plus grande île du pays. Par deux ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-dawson · Dawson · French
Dawson · rank #20,414 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,414
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Cyrille
Nearest frequency peer: Cyrille (-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 « Dawson »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- culminant
culminant
79,589 corpus weight
- Cyrille
Cyrille
79,588 corpus weight
- Dawson
Dawson
79,587 corpus weight
- descriptif
descriptif
79,586 corpus weight
- designers
designers
79,585 corpus weight
- desserte
desserte
79,584 corpus weight
What this shows « Dawson » 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 | Dawson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #20,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dawson »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Dawson, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,414 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Île chilienne située au large et au sud de la Ville de Punta Arenas, Environ 300 personnes y vivent pour une sur superficie de 1290 km², ce qui en fait la 9^(ème) plus grande île du pays. Par deux ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dawson, with forms such as "adwson", "daswon", and "dawosn". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dawn", "dalton", "Danton", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Dawson, spelled D-A-W-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Île chilienne située au large et au sud de la Ville de Punta Arenas, Environ 300 personnes y vivent pour une sur superficie de 1290 km², ce qui en fait la 9^(ème) plus grande île du pays. Par deux fois elle à servi de lieu de détention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dawson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'abord, le moment où fut conduit le premier groupe de camarades prisonniers politiques de Punta Arenas le 11 septembre 1973, la nuit même, au premier camp de concentration improvisé de l'Île Dawson, nommé Compingin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adwson
- daswon
- dawosn
- dawsno
- dawsonn
- dawsson
- dawwson
- ddawson
- dwason
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dawson - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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