ddl
\də.ɡʁe də li.bɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“ddl” is uncommon French (frequency #65,065 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,065
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Degré de liberté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ddl · ddl · French
ddl · rank #65,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,065
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dansée
Nearest frequency peer: dansée (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ddl »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- customer
customer
34,942 corpus weight
- dansée
dansée
34,938 corpus weight
- ddl
ddl
34,936 corpus weight
- Dekker
Dekker
34,932 corpus weight
- DELF
DELF
34,931 corpus weight
- DeLorean
DeLorean
34,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ddl » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ddl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.ɡʁe də li.bɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ddl » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ddl is uncommon French at frequency #65,065 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \də.ɡʁe də li.bɛʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Degré de liberté.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ddl, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ddl, spelled D-D-L.
Definition
- 1Degré de liberté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ddl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Figure 11.5 Fonctions de densité de lois de Student avec différents degrés de liberté (ddl).
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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