Dieppe
\djɛp\
The verdict
“Dieppe” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,505. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,505
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dieppe · Dieppe · French
Dieppe · rank #19,505 · 6 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,505
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Denys
Nearest frequency peer: Denys (-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 « Dieppe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dansent
dansent
80,499 corpus weight
- Darren
Darren
80,498 corpus weight
- Denys
Denys
80,497 corpus weight
- Dieppe
Dieppe
80,496 corpus weight
- différencia…
différenciation
80,495 corpus weight
- digitales
digitales
80,494 corpus weight
What this shows « Dieppe » 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 | Dieppe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \djɛp\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dieppe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Dieppe (IPA \djɛp\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,505 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dieppe, with forms such as "ddieppe", "deippe", and "diepe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "œdipe", "diète", "dièse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dieppe, spelled D-I-E-P-P-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
- 2Ville du Nouveau-Brunswick, au Canada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dieppe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, par contre, si l’arrondissement de Dieppe semble peu habité, c’est que beaucoup de ceux qui y ont commencé leur vie vont, par la suite, s’engouffrer et se stériliser dans les villes dévoratrices.
– Hé, j’ai une devinette pour toi : Pisser sans péter, c’est aller à Dieppe sans voir la mer. Qui a écrit ça ? – Salvador Dalí, c’est dans son livre sur les pets.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddieppe
- deippe
- diepe
- diepep
- dipepe
- ideppe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dieppe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).