deg
\deːɡ\
The verdict
“deg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,974) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,974
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâte — Préparation culinaire à base de farine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deg · deg · French
deg · rank #34,974 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,974
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Darfour
Nearest frequency peer: Darfour (-2 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 « deg »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- créons
créons
65,032 corpus weight
- cyniques
cyniques
65,031 corpus weight
- Darfour
Darfour
65,029 corpus weight
- deg
deg
65,027 corpus weight
- det
det
65,025 corpus weight
- dichotomie
dichotomie
65,023 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « deg » 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 | deg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \deːɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « deg »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for deg is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \deːɡ\. Frequency #34,974 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Pâte — Préparation culinaire à base de farine.".
deg doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is deg, spelled D-E-G.
Definition
- 1Pâte — Préparation culinaire à base de farine.
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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