dirk
\diʁk\
The verdict
“dirk” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,932. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,932
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poignard des montagnards écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirk · dirk · French
dirk · rank #24,932 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,932
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffusant
Nearest frequency peer: diffusant (-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 « dirk »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- demeurera
demeurera
75,072 corpus weight
- devils
devils
75,071 corpus weight
- diffusant
diffusant
75,070 corpus weight
- dirk
dirk
75,069 corpus weight
- discerner
discerner
75,068 corpus weight
- discutez
discutez
75,067 corpus weight
What this shows « dirk » 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 | dirk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \diʁk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dirk »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dirk (IPA \diʁk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,932 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poignard des montagnards écossais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dirk, with forms such as "ddirk", "dikr", and "dirkk". 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, "dr", "dix", "dur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dirk, spelled D-I-R-K.
Definition
- 1Poignard des montagnards écossais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dirk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, en disant ces mots, il ceignit une courte épée, plaça un pistolet à sa ceinture, découvrant dans ce mouvement, qui fit entrouvrir son pourpoint, les fins anneaux d’une cotte de maille destinée à le mettre à l’abri du premier coup de poignard d’un assassin. Après quoi il passa un dirk écossais dans sa main gauche.
Je me souvenais de la longue vendetta qui opposa à travers l’histoire d’Écosse les Macfarlanes et les Macgregors, au temps où les chefs de clans maniaient trop fréquemment la claymore et le dirk !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddirk
- dikr
- dirkk
- dirrk
- drik
- idrk
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dirk - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dirk", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).