dela
The verdict
“dela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,803) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,803
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprimer un sentiment par un jeu de mine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dela · dela · French
dela · rank #19,803 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,803
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dee
Nearest frequency peer: dee (-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 « dela »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- dictée
dictée
80,195 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dela » 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 | dela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dela »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dela is neighbouring look-alikes ("DL", "des", …), not just typos; it is averb. Frequency #19,803 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Exprimer un sentiment par un jeu de mine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for dela, with forms such as "ddela", "dlea", and "edla". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DL", "des", "der", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dela, spelled D-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Exprimer un sentiment par un jeu de mine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
delee̱ ńolo, delee̱ mboe̱mboe̱
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddela
- dlea
- edla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dela - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "dela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).