death

\dɛθ\

/\dɛθ\/ noun

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The verdict

“death” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,563. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,563
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La mort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-death · death · French

death · rank #13,563 · 7 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,563
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH demandeur

Nearest frequency peer: demandeur (+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 « death »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « death » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

death vs det
60% similar
death vs dent
60% similar
death vs débat
40% similar

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

Key facts for death
PropertyValue
Headworddeath
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɛθ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#13,563
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « death »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).deathse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « demandeur » (#13,564), « Créteil » (#13,561), « crystal » (#13,560). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « death » est au #13,563. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around death (IPA \dɛθ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,563 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for death, with forms such as "daeth", "ddeath", and "deaht". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "det", "dent", "débat", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is death, spelled D-E-A-T-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    La mort.
  2. 2
    Décès.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learnt Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness; his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • daeth
  • ddeath
  • deaht
  • deathh
  • deatth
  • detah
  • edath

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of death - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

daeth2ddeath1deaht2deathh1deatth1detah2edath2
Edit distance from "death"

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 "death"?
"death" is spelled D-E-A-T-H. The IPA pronunciation is \dɛθ\.
What does "death" mean?
As a noun, "death" means: La mort.
What words are commonly confused with "death"?
"death" is commonly confused with "det", "dent", "débat". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "death"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "death" is \dɛθ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "death" come from?
"death" 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 "death", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

diner#13,568dotés#13,572cargo#13,532exode#13,594

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

gérée7 variantsharam7 variantsAuxerre7 variantsKlein7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list