dir

\diːɐ̯\

/\diːɐ̯\/ pron

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The verdict

“dir” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,530) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#8,530
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toi : deuxième personne du singulier au datif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dir · dir · French

dir · rank #8,530 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,530
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH down

Nearest frequency peer: down (+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 « dir »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « dir » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dir vs du
33% similar
dir vs dr
67% similar
dir vs do
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dir
PropertyValue
Headworddir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPronoun
IPA\diːɐ̯\
Letters3
Frequency rank#8,530
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dir »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).dirse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « down » (#8,531), « dues » (#8,532), « demoiselle » (#8,527). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dir » est au #8,530. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for dir is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \diːɐ̯\. Frequency #8,530 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Toi : deuxième personne du singulier au datif.".

Zero misspellings are on record for dir in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 dir, spelled D-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toi : deuxième personne du singulier au datif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ich spiele mit dir aber ohne sie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dir"?
"dir" is spelled D-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \diːɐ̯\.
What does "dir" mean?
As a pronoun, "dir" means: Toi : deuxième personne du singulier au datif.
What words are commonly confused with "dir"?
"dir" is commonly confused with "du", "dr", "do". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dir" is \diːɐ̯\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dir" come from?
"dir" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dir", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

CAQ#8,509han#8,553hip#8,554pie#8,596

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list