dengue
\dɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“dengue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,413. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,413
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maladie virale endémique dans les pays tropicaux causée par les virus de type flavivirus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dengue · dengue · French
dengue · rank #44,413 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,413
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH defender
Nearest frequency peer: defender (-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 « dengue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- césure
césure
55,592 corpus weight
- daphne
daphne
55,591 corpus weight
- defender
defender
55,589 corpus weight
- dengue
dengue
55,588 corpus weight
- destructric…
destructrices
55,587 corpus weight
- DGA
DGA
55,586 corpus weight
What this shows « dengue » 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 | dengue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dengue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dengue (IPA \dɛ̃ɡ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,413 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Maladie virale endémique dans les pays tropicaux causée par les virus de type flavivirus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dengue, with forms such as "ddengue", "degnue", and "dengeu". 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, "dense", "digue", "dénué", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dengue, spelled D-E-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Maladie virale endémique dans les pays tropicaux causée par les virus de type flavivirus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dengue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne sais pas, mais je crois qu'il commence une crise de dengue, répliqua le jeune homme.
La dengue est une maladie endémique des zones tropicales qui provoque de fortes fièvres, des maux de tête, des nausées, des vomissements, des douleurs musculaires et, dans les cas les plus graves, des saignements pouvant entraîner la mort.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddengue
- degnue
- dengeu
- denggue
- denngue
- denuge
- dnegue
- edngue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dengue - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).