dee
\ˈdi\
The verdict
“dee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,802) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,802
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D, d (lettre de l’alphabet latin).
Corpus desk
Index FR-dee · dee · French
dee · rank #19,802 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,802
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dea
Nearest frequency peer: dea (-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 « dee »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- dexter
dexter
80,196 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dee » 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 | dee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dee »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dee is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈdi\. Frequency #19,802 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "D, d (lettre de l’alphabet latin).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dee, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dee, spelled D-E-E.
Definition
- 1D, d (lettre de l’alphabet latin).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).