dla
\dla\
The verdict
“dla” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,771) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,771
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dla · dla · French
dla · rank #27,771 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,771
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissidence
Nearest frequency peer: dissidence (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dla »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- disproporti…
disproportionnée
72,233 corpus weight
- disputées
disputées
72,232 corpus weight
- dissidence
dissidence
72,231 corpus weight
- dla
dla
72,230 corpus weight
- dol
dol
72,229 corpus weight
- dominicain
dominicain
72,228 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dla » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | dla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \dla\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dla »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dla is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced \dla\. Frequency #27,771 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dla, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "do", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dla, spelled D-L-A.
Definition
- 1Pour.
- 2Pour, en faveur de, envers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ten prezent jest dla ciebie, ce cadeau est pour toi.
Ten film jest dla dorosłych, c’est un film pour adultes.
Synonyms
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).