Dijon
\di.ʒɔ̃\
The verdict
“Dijon” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,443. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,443
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dijon · Dijon · French
Dijon · rank #5,443 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,443
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deviendra
Nearest frequency peer: deviendra (-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 « Dijon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coucou
coucou
94,561 corpus weight
- critiquer
critiquer
94,560 corpus weight
- deviendra
deviendra
94,559 corpus weight
- Dijon
Dijon
94,558 corpus weight
- disposer
disposer
94,557 corpus weight
- douter
douter
94,556 corpus weight
What this shows « Dijon » 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 | Dijon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \di.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dijon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Dijon (IPA \di.ʒɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,443 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dijon, with forms such as "ddijon", "dijjon", and "dijno". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "don", "din", "dion", 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 is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Dijon, spelled D-I-J-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, située dans le département de la Côte-d’Or.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dijon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le parlement de Paris, les parlements de province étaient chargés de cette immense perruque à laquelle le président Diderot ne pouvait s’accoutumer ; et M. de Brosses lui-même qui se riait si bien dans sa correspondance des vastissimes perruques carrées sous lesquelles étaient cachés le doge de Gênes et ses sénateurs, s’était vu forcé de s’en affubler com…
— Attendez donc ! je me souviens que Dauvergne, dans sa jeunesse, a fait jouer à Dijon une pièce, un acte en vers. Et c’est une ville littéraire que Dijon, ça lui donne tout de suite un petit parfum de belles-lettres.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddijon
- dijjon
- dijno
- dijonn
- diojn
- djion
- idjon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dijon - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).