dei

noun

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The verdict

“dei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,767) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#13,767
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-dei · dei · French

dei · rank #13,767 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,767
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dealer

Nearest frequency peer: dealer (-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 « dei »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « dei » 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).

dei vs du
33% similar
dei vs dr
33% similar
dei vs di
67% similar

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

Key facts for dei
PropertyValue
Headworddei
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#13,767
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dei »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.deise 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 « dealer » (#13,766), « direz » (#13,768), « cuisines » (#13,765). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dei » est au #13,767. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for dei is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #13,767 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dei, 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dei, spelled D-E-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appel, convocation.
  2. 2
    Citation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Eztei-deia, annonce de mariage.
  2. Auzirako deia, la citation en justice.

Synonyms

deialdideiadar

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 "dei"?
"dei" is spelled D-E-I.
What does "dei" mean?
As a noun, "dei" means: Appel, convocation.
What words are commonly confused with "dei"?
"dei" is commonly confused with "du", "dr", "di". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "dei" come from?
"dei" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

CPE#13,762ATP#13,735mad#13,833NFL#13,849

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list