die
\daj\
The verdict
“die” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,237) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,237
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit morceau rectangulaire obtenu par découpe d’un wafer à partir duquel on fabrique un circuit intégré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-die · die · French
die · rank #5,237 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,237
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dettes
Nearest frequency peer: dettes (-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 « die »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- corresponda…
correspondance
94,767 corpus weight
- coupes
coupes
94,766 corpus weight
- dettes
dettes
94,765 corpus weight
- die
die
94,764 corpus weight
- donnait
donnait
94,763 corpus weight
- emploie
emploie
94,761 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « die » 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 | die |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « die »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for die is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \daj\. Frequency #5,237 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for die in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "do", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is die, spelled D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Petit morceau rectangulaire obtenu par découpe d’un wafer à partir duquel on fabrique un circuit intégré.
- 2Le circuit intégré lui-même, sans son boîtier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how die appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour cela, les ingénieurs de l’entreprise ont développé avec TSMC la solution 3D V-Cache consistant à placer 64 Mo de cache L3 par-dessus un die Zen 3, auxquels ils sont interconnectés.
Synonyms
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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