det
\ˈdet\
The verdict
“det” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,976) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,976
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-det · det · French
det · rank #34,976 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,976
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deg
Nearest frequency peer: deg (-2 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 « det »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Darfour
Darfour
65,029 corpus weight
- deg
deg
65,027 corpus weight
- det
det
65,025 corpus weight
- dichotomie
dichotomie
65,023 corpus weight
- dies
dies
65,021 corpus weight
- dindon
dindon
65,020 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « det » 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 | det |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdet\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « det »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for det is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈdet\. Frequency #34,976 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Mer.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for det, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is det, spelled D-E-T.
Definition
- 1Mer.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).