deal

\dil\

/\dil\/ noun

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The verdict

“deal” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,982) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#8,982
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accord, marché, informel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-deal · deal · French

deal · rank #8,982 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,982
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH cérémonies

Nearest frequency peer: cérémonies (-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 « deal »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « deal » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

deal vs DL
0% similar
deal vs des
50% similar
deal vs der
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for deal
PropertyValue
Headworddeal
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dil\
Letters4
Frequency rank#8,982
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « deal »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dealse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « cérémonies » (#8,981), « devenues » (#8,983), « coq » (#8,980). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « deal » est au #8,982. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for deal is neighbouring look-alikes ("DL", "des", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dil\. Frequency #8,982 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for deal, with forms such as "dael", "ddeal", and "deall". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DL", "des", "der", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is deal, spelled D-E-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Accord, marché, informel.
  2. 2
    Vente de drogues.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how deal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Que je lui offre des voyages, que je lui évite de chercher un travail qui l’aurait rendu moins disponible pour moi, me semblait un marché équitable, un bon deal, d’autant plus que c’est moi qui en fixais les règles.
  2. La vérité est que le Canada moderne est le produit d’un deal derrière des portes closes entre les politiciens et les commerçants monarchistes de la colonie, sous la tutelle paternaliste de Londres.

This word in other languages

deal(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dael
  • ddeal
  • deall
  • edal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

dael2ddeal1deall1edal2
Edit distance from "deal"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "deal"?
"deal" is spelled D-E-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is \dil\.
What does "deal" mean?
As a noun, "deal" means: Accord, marché, informel.
What words are commonly confused with "deal"?
"deal" is commonly confused with "DL", "des", "der". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "deal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "deal" is \dil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "deal" come from?
"deal" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "deal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

gène#9,016Yann#8,947have#9,020vaux#8,943

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list