DMC
The verdict
“DMC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,703) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,703
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien constructeur automobile américain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dmc · DMC · French
DMC · rank #46,703 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,703
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dja
Nearest frequency peer: dja (-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 « DMC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- diptyque
diptyque
53,302 corpus weight
- directory
directory
53,301 corpus weight
- disciplinés
disciplinés
53,300 corpus weight
- dja
dja
53,299 corpus weight
- DMC
DMC
53,298 corpus weight
- documentées
documentées
53,296 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DMC » 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 | DMC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DMC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DMC is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #46,703 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Ancien constructeur automobile américain.".
DMC has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is DMC, spelled D-M-C.
Definition
- 1Ancien constructeur automobile américain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DMC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La DMC-12, plus communément appelée DeLorean, est la seule et unique voiture construite par la DeLorean Motor Company.
C’est en octobre 1975 que nait la DMC, pour DeLorean Motor Company.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).