dea
The verdict
“dea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,801) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,801
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manger chez quelqu’un, de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dea · dea · French
dea · rank #19,801 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,801
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dee
Nearest frequency peer: dee (+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 « dea »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- crêpe
crêpe
80,203 corpus weight
- dani
dani
80,202 corpus weight
- dea
dea
80,200 corpus weight
- dee
dee
80,199 corpus weight
- dela
dela
80,198 corpus weight
- devrons
devrons
80,197 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dea » 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 | dea |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dea »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dea is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #19,801 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Manger chez quelqu’un, de quelque chose.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dea in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dea, spelled D-E-A.
Definition
- 1Manger chez quelqu’un, de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dea appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
na mala o mboa dikoe̱m lam, na ma dea nde owo
o bekombo bôe̱ bato bee̱see̱ ba yoe̱ki nde dea moe̱njoe̱ môe̱
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).