district

/\dis.tʁikt\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,123

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

district is aFrenchnoun. It means: Division territoriale de moyenne étendue. Pronounced \dis.tʁikt\. It ranks #5,123 in French word frequency. Often confused with districts and distinct.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of district in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for district is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for district, with forms such as "ddistrict", "disrtict", and "disstrict". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "districts", "distinct", "distrait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is district, spelled D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for district

Misspelling Variants of "district"

ddistrict9disrtict8disstrict9distirct8distrcit8districct9districtt9distritc8
Misspelling Variants of "district"

Frequency rank: #5,123 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.