district

\dis.tʁikt\

/\dis.tʁikt\/ noun

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The verdict

“district” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,123
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Division territoriale de moyenne étendue.

Corpus desk

Index FR-district · district · French

district · rank #5,123 · 13 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,123
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH devint

Nearest frequency peer: devint (-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 « district »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « district » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

district vs districts
89% similar
district vs distinct
75% similar
district vs distrait
75% similar

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

Key facts for district
PropertyValue
Headworddistrict
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dis.tʁikt\
Letters8
Frequency rank#5,123
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « district »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).districtse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « devint » (#5,122), « défauts » (#5,124), « demandez » (#5,121). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « district » est au #5,123. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around district (IPA \dis.tʁikt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,123 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    Division territoriale de moyenne étendue.
  2. 2
    Étendue de juridiction, sous l’Ancien Régime.
  3. 3
    Ancienne division principale d’un département, aujourd’hui arrondissement.
  4. 4
    Division administrative de certains cantons suisses.
  5. 5
    Dénomination utilisée pour désigner les 5 territoires constituants les Terres australes et antarctiques françaises.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Entre la Slovaquie et la Tchéquie proprement dite ou le royaume de Bohème, s'étend le duché de Moravie, qui, avec plusieurs districts de Silésie, fait également partie intégrante du territoire des Tchéquo-Slaves.
  2. Les petits districts très différents qui se trouvent soudés artificiellement dans le Tarn-et-Garonne retrouveront leur vitalité quand, échappés à un compartimentage mal conçu, ils seront de nouveau mêlés aux vastes divisions provinciales commandées par la nature des choses.

This word in other languages

district(English)distrito(Español)Bezirk(Deutsch)

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.

ddistrict1disrtict2disstrict1distirct2distrcit2districct1districtt1distritc2
Edit distance from "district"

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 "district"?
"district" is spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dis.tʁikt\.
What does "district" mean?
As a noun, "district" means: Division territoriale de moyenne étendue.
What words are commonly confused with "district"?
"district" is commonly confused with "districts", "distinct", "distrait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "district"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "district" is \dis.tʁikt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "district" come from?
"district" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

demandez#5,121désigner#5,127comptait#5,114fauteuil#5,133

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

exercices13 variantsexpertise13 variantscimetière13 variantsvengeance13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list