deir
\dɛjr\
The verdict
“deir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,242) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,242
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de teir par adoucissement (t → d).
Corpus desk
Index FR-deir · deir · French
deir · rank #38,242 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,242
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dessinait
Nearest frequency peer: dessinait (+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 « deir »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Daniela
Daniela
61,762 corpus weight
- Danilo
Danilo
61,761 corpus weight
- deir
deir
61,759 corpus weight
- dessinait
dessinait
61,758 corpus weight
- dey
dey
61,757 corpus weight
- diocésain
diocésain
61,755 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « deir » 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 | deir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛjr\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,242 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « deir »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for deir is neighbouring look-alikes ("dr", "di", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \dɛjr\. Frequency #38,242 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de teir par adoucissement (t → d).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for deir, with forms such as "ddeir", "deirr", and "deri". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dr", "di", "des", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is deir, spelled D-E-I-R.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de teir par adoucissement (t → d).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diwar deir gwech e vez torret ar blanedenn.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddeir
- deirr
- deri
- edir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of deir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "deir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).