dingue
\dɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“dingue” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,452. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Fou, fada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dingue · dingue · French
dingue · rank #3,452 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,452
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dimension
Nearest frequency peer: dimension (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dingue”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- copain
copain
96,552 corpus weight
- coûts
coûts
96,551 corpus weight
- dimension
dimension
96,550 corpus weight
- dingue
dingue
96,549 corpus weight
- discipline
discipline
96,548 corpus weight
- défi
défi
96,547 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dingue” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dingue” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dingue (IPA \dɛ̃ɡ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dingue, with forms such as "ddingue", "dignue", and "dingeu". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "disque", "drogue", "drague", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dingue, spelled D-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Fou, fada.
- 2Bizarre, extraordinaire, saugrenu ; il peut être mélioratif en ce sens.
- 3Enjoué au plus haut point ; fanatique.
- 4Extraordinaire, de fou au sens de hors du commun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se fait chier chez ses beaux-parents ; elle en devient dingue.
Elle a peur, elle est vissée sur son siège, elle attend une heure correcte pour partir, chaque parole qu’elle dit, elle essaye d’en dire, la rend dingue de trouille […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddingue
- dignue
- dingeu
- dinggue
- dinngue
- dinuge
- dnigue
- idngue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dingue - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dingue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.