dig
The verdict
“dig” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,253) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,253
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Son métallique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dig · dig · French
dig · rank #39,253 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,253
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffraction
Nearest frequency peer: diffraction (-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 « dig »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Dembélé
Dembélé
60,751 corpus weight
- Depression
Depression
60,750 corpus weight
- diffraction
diffraction
60,749 corpus weight
- dig
dig
60,748 corpus weight
- dinner
dinner
60,747 corpus weight
- distille
distille
60,745 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dig » 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 | dig |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,253 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dig »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dig is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia. Frequency #39,253 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Son métallique.".
dig doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "do", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dig, spelled D-I-G.
Definition
- 1Son métallique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le son d’une cloche me réveilla subitement. C’était la cloche de Sarlande, l’horrible cloche de fer qui sonnait comme autrefois : « Dig ! dong ! réveillez-vous ! dig ! dong ! habillez-vous ! »
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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