della
\ˈdel.la\
The verdict
“della” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,444) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,444
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Article contracté souvent traduit par De la.
Corpus desk
Index FR-della · della · French
della · rank #14,444 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,444
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deep
Nearest frequency peer: deep (-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 « della »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cylindre
cylindre
85,560 corpus weight
- dauphins
dauphins
85,559 corpus weight
- deep
deep
85,558 corpus weight
- della
della
85,557 corpus weight
- denrées
denrées
85,556 corpus weight
- dentelle
dentelle
85,555 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « della » 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 | della |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \ˈdel.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « della »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for della is neighbouring look-alikes ("dla", "doll", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \ˈdel.la\. Frequency #14,444 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Article contracté souvent traduit par De la.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for della, with forms such as "ddella", "delal", and "dlela". 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, "dla", "doll", "devra", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is della, spelled D-E-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Article contracté souvent traduit par De la.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how della appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
il capo della polizia.
la statua della libertà.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddella
- delal
- dlela
- edlla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of della - 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 "della", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).