Dickens
\dik.ɛ̃s\
The verdict
“Dickens” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,776. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,776
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Charles Dickens (1812-1870), romancier anglais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dickens · Dickens · French
Dickens · rank #32,776 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,776
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demo
Nearest frequency peer: demo (-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 « Dickens »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dario
Dario
67,228 corpus weight
- Deleuze
Deleuze
67,227 corpus weight
- demo
demo
67,226 corpus weight
- Dickens
Dickens
67,225 corpus weight
- discutions
discutions
67,224 corpus weight
- disparaissa…
disparaissait
67,223 corpus weight
What this shows « Dickens » 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 | Dickens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dik.ɛ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dickens »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dickens (IPA \dik.ɛ̃s\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,776 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Charles Dickens (1812-1870), romancier anglais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dickens, with forms such as "dcikens", "ddickens", and "dicckens". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dictées", "dockers", "dictent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dickens, spelled D-I-C-K-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine anglo-saxonne, surtout connu via Charles Dickens (1812-1870), romancier anglais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dickens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ma belle-mère, cette Anglaise qui trouvait Dickens commun et révérait les bonnes familles des romans de Galsworthy, croyait aux réconciliations entre proches.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcikens
- ddickens
- dicckens
- dicekns
- dickenns
- dickenss
- dickesn
- dickkens
- dicknes
- dikcens
- idckens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dickens - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).