district
\dis.tʁikt\
The verdict
“district” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #5,123 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,123
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Division territoriale de moyenne étendue.
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 | district |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.tʁikt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “district” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for district is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.tʁikt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,123 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for district, with forms such as "ddistrict", "disrtict", and "disstrict". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "districts", "distinct", "distrait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is district, spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T.
Definition
- 1Division territoriale de moyenne étendue.
- 2Étendue de juridiction, sous l’Ancien Régime.
- 3Ancienne division principale d’un département, aujourd’hui arrondissement.
- 4Division administrative de certains cantons suisses.
- 5Dénomination utilisée pour désigner les 5 territoires constituants les Terres australes et antarctiques françaises.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddistrict,disrtict,disstrict,distirct,distrcit,districct,districtt,distritc,distrrict,disttrict,ditsrict,dsitrict,idstrict
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of district - 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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Using “district”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dis.tʁikt\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “districts” - see the side-by-side comparison. district vs districts
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.