Delhi
\de.li\
The verdict
“Delhi” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,590
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de l’Inde, administrativement un des sept territoires de ce pays, située sur les bords de la rivière Yamuna, placée sur les routes de commerce du nord-ouest de la plaine du Gange.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delhi · Delhi · French
Delhi · rank #16,590 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,590
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Danube
Nearest frequency peer: Danube (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Delhi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- cynisme
cynisme
83,414 corpus weight
- dana
dana
83,413 corpus weight
- Danube
Danube
83,412 corpus weight
- Delhi
Delhi
83,411 corpus weight
- devance
devance
83,410 corpus weight
- différentiel
différentiel
83,409 corpus weight
What this shows « Delhi » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Delhi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Delhi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Delhi (IPA \de.li\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,590 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville de l’Inde, administrativement un des sept territoires de ce pays, située sur les bords de la rivière Yamuna, placée sur les routes de commerce du nord-ouest de la plaine du Gange.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Delhi, with forms such as "ddelhi", "dehli", and "delhhi". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "demi", "déni", "dell", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Delhi, spelled D-E-L-H-I.
Definition
- 1Ville de l’Inde, administrativement un des sept territoires de ce pays, située sur les bords de la rivière Yamuna, placée sur les routes de commerce du nord-ouest de la plaine du Gange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Delhi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chaque jour, depuis au moins deux semaines, Santé Canada détecte des cas de COVID-19 dans des vols en provenance de Delhi, en Inde, à destination de Toronto et de Vancouver.
Des volées de mouettes envahissent les petits bateaux de pêche, presque tous les matins, sur les rives de la rivière Yamuna à Delhi, en Inde.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddelhi
- dehli
- delhhi
- delih
- dellhi
- dlehi
- edlhi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Delhi - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).