debt
\dɛt\
The verdict
“debt” is uncommon French (frequency #63,664 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,664
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-debt · debt · French
debt · rank #63,664 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,664
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Declan
Nearest frequency peer: Declan (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « debt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céréalière
céréalière
36,340 corpus weight
- dah
dah
36,339 corpus weight
- debt
debt
36,337 corpus weight
- Declan
Declan
36,336 corpus weight
- deen
deen
36,334 corpus weight
- Desportes
Desportes
36,333 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « debt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | debt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « debt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
debt is uncommon French at frequency #63,664 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dette.".
debt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 debt, spelled D-E-B-T.
Definition
- 1Dette.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how debt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My brother is 2000 dollars in debt.
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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