dinde
\dɛ̃d\
The verdict
“dinde” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,340. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,340
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femelle du dindon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dinde · dinde · French
dinde · rank #16,340 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,340
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disciplinaire
Nearest frequency peer: disciplinaire (+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 « dinde »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dale
dale
83,664 corpus weight
- dinde
dinde
83,661 corpus weight
- disciplinai…
disciplinaire
83,660 corpus weight
- dispense
dispense
83,659 corpus weight
- diversifica…
diversification
83,658 corpus weight
- dun
dun
83,657 corpus weight
What this shows « dinde » 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 | dinde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛ̃d\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dinde »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around dinde (IPA \dɛ̃d\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,340 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for dinde, with forms such as "ddinde", "didne", and "dindde". 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, "dire", "dite", "dise", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dinde, spelled D-I-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Femelle du dindon.
- 2Viande de dinde ou de dindon.
- 3Femme sans intelligence, niaise, stupide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dinde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Retourner au village, vivre avec nouveau parmi les racontars des femmes, écouter tout le jour les piaulements des dindes et des poulets, les bêlements des moutons, cela l’attirait peu.
Pour Noël, il y a une espèce de joie macabre, qui précède le macabre, on anticipe avec la dinde. La dinde est un gros poulet, c’est la taille d’un bébé. Et les autres enfants sont couverts de cadeaux, pour faire passer la mauvaise intention en train de sourdre, et monter de plus en plus avec les cadeaux, les lumières, les guirlandes, les fils électriques…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddinde
- didne
- dindde
- dined
- dinnde
- dnide
- idnde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dinde - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).