DMS
\de.ɛm.ɛs\
The verdict
“DMS” is uncommon French (frequency #64,378 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,378
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sulfure de diméthyle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dms · DMS · French
DMS · rank #64,378 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,378
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divide
Nearest frequency peer: divide (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « DMS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diver
diver
35,625 corpus weight
- divide
divide
35,624 corpus weight
- DMS
DMS
35,623 corpus weight
- dominera
dominera
35,622 corpus weight
- DPA
DPA
35,621 corpus weight
- dragueurs
dragueurs
35,620 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DMS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DMS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛm.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #64,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DMS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DMS is uncommon French at frequency #64,378 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ɛm.ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sulfure de diméthyle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DMS, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is DMS, spelled D-M-S.
Definition
- 1Sulfure de diméthyle.
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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