deu
The verdict
“deu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,794) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,794
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deu · deu · French
deu · rank #36,794 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,794
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH desservis
Nearest frequency peer: desservis (-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 « deu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- cuvier
cuvier
63,210 corpus weight
- desdits
desdits
63,209 corpus weight
- desservis
desservis
63,208 corpus weight
- deu
deu
63,207 corpus weight
- Deutschland
Deutschland
63,206 corpus weight
- Diarra
Diarra
63,205 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « deu » 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 | deu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « deu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for deu is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #36,794 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Dieu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for deu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "di", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is deu, spelled D-E-U.
Definition
- 1Dieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
aux diex a fait .i. sacrefice
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 "deu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).