DD
The verdict
“DD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,405) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,405
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélange phytosanitaire, de dichloropropane et de dichloropropène , à usage de nématicide en traitement de sol.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dd · DD · French
DD · rank #17,405 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,405
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH days
Nearest frequency peer: days (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « DD »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- côtière
côtière
82,599 corpus weight
- dauphine
dauphine
82,598 corpus weight
- days
days
82,597 corpus weight
- DD
DD
82,596 corpus weight
- diabolique
diabolique
82,594 corpus weight
- dialecte
dialecte
82,593 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DD » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | DD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #17,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DD »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DD is neighbouring look-alikes ("de", "du", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #17,405 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Mélange phytosanitaire, de dichloropropane et de dichloropropène , à usage de nématicide en traitement de sol.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DD, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "de", "du", "dr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is DD, spelled D-D.
Definition
- 1Mélange phytosanitaire, de dichloropropane et de dichloropropène , à usage de nématicide en traitement de sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les fumigants efficaces contre les nématodes de la pomme de terre, on trouve le DD, le Super DD, le Telone et le Vorlex.
L'utilisation de produits nématicides ne fournit pas de résultats intéressants. Le DD s'est révélé inefficace.
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.