DJ

/\di.dʒe\/ noun

Letters

2 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,186

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

DJ is aFrenchnoun. It means: Disc jockey, personne qui fait tourner les platines pendant les soirées, qui met de l’ambiance en musique. Pronounced \di.dʒe\. It ranks #6,186 in French word frequency. Often confused with du and dr.

Key facts for DJ
PropertyValue
HeadwordDJ
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.dʒe\
Letters2
Frequency rank#6,186
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for DJ is 2 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.dʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,186 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Disc jockey, personne qui fait tourner les platines pendant les soirées, qui met de l’ambiance en musique.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for DJ in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "do", 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 DJ, spelled D-J, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Disc jockey, personne qui fait tourner les platines pendant les soirées, qui met de l’ambiance en musique.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #6,186 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "DJ"?
"DJ" is spelled D-J. The IPA pronunciation is \di.dʒe\.
What does "DJ" mean?
As a noun, "DJ" means: Disc jockey, personne qui fait tourner les platines pendant les soirées, qui met de l’ambiance en musique.
What words are commonly confused with "DJ"?
"DJ" 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 "DJ"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "DJ" is \di.dʒe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "DJ" come from?
"DJ" 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.