den
\deːn\
The verdict
“den” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,639) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,639
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusatif masculin singulier de der.
Corpus desk
Index FR-den · den · French
den · rank #9,639 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,639
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandée
Nearest frequency peer: demandée (-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 « den »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cuisses
cuisses
90,365 corpus weight
- demandée
demandée
90,363 corpus weight
- den
den
90,362 corpus weight
- dick
dick
90,361 corpus weight
- douteux
douteux
90,360 corpus weight
- draps
draps
90,359 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « den » 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 | den |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \deːn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « den »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for den is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \deːn\. Frequency #9,639 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for den in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is den, spelled D-E-N.
Definition
- 1Accusatif masculin singulier de der.
- 2Datif pluriel de der.
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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