Dex
\'de.us\
The verdict
“Dex” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,878) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,878
- 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-dex · Dex · French
Dex · rank #43,878 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,878
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devenais
Nearest frequency peer: devenais (-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 « Dex »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dansaient
dansaient
56,126 corpus weight
- Denzel
Denzel
56,125 corpus weight
- devenais
devenais
56,124 corpus weight
- Dex
Dex
56,123 corpus weight
- diacres
diacres
56,122 corpus weight
- diffusera
diffusera
56,121 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Dex » 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 | Dex |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \'de.us\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Dex »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Dex is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \'de.us\. Frequency #43,878 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Dieu".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dex, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
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 Dex, spelled D-E-X.
Definition
- 1Dieu
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dex appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si done Dex diversement / Divers sens et diverse gent.
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).