DH

\de.aʃ\

/\de.aʃ\/ noun

The verdict

“DH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,853) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#16,853
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dirham marocain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dh · DH · French

DH · rank #16,853 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,853
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Darwin

Nearest frequency peer: Darwin (-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 « DH »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « DH » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

DH vs du
0% similar
DH vs dr
0% similar
DH vs di
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for DH
PropertyValue
HeadwordDH
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.aʃ\
Letters2
Frequency rank#16,853
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DH »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.DHse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Darwin » (#16,852), « diarrhée » (#16,854), « crocodile » (#16,851). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « DH » est au #16,853. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for DH is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \de.aʃ\. Frequency #16,853 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Dirham marocain.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DH, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 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 DH, spelled D-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dirham marocain.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how DH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En 1979, le solde global dégage un bénéfice de 14,89 M DH mais en 1980 l'aggravation des sinistres payés et des autres charges ainsi que l’expansion moins rapide des émissions engendrent un déficit de 8,30 M DH […].
  2. Dans ce cas, le bénéfice du phœniciculteur peut être de 1 200 000 DH annuellement pour des variétés de dattes de première qualité (Mejhoul), et de 200 000 DH pour des variétés de qualité moindre telles que la variété Bousthami noir.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "DH"?
"DH" is spelled D-H. The IPA pronunciation is \de.aʃ\.
What does "DH" mean?
As a noun, "DH" means: Dirham marocain.
What words are commonly confused with "DH"?
"DH" is commonly confused with "du", "dr", "di". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "DH"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "DH" is \de.aʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "DH" come from?
"DH" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list