dies
\daj\
The verdict
“dies” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,980) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,980
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de die.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dies · dies · French
dies · rank #34,980 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,980
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dindon
Nearest frequency peer: dindon (+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 « dies »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- det
det
65,025 corpus weight
- dichotomie
dichotomie
65,023 corpus weight
- dies
dies
65,021 corpus weight
- dindon
dindon
65,020 corpus weight
- disc
disc
65,019 corpus weight
- disposera
disposera
65,018 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dies » 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 | dies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daj\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dies »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dies is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ds", "dix", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \daj\. Frequency #34,980 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de die.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for dies, including "ddies" and "deis". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "dix", "dos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 dies, spelled D-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de die.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddies
- deis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dies - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).