DNB
\de.ɛn.be\
The verdict
“DNB” is uncommon French (frequency #72,248 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,248
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - « Diplôme national du brevet ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-dnb · DNB · French
DNB · rank #72,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,248
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doigter
Nearest frequency peer: doigter (+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 « DNB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disqualifiés
disqualifiés
27,757 corpus weight
- Djeddah
Djeddah
27,755 corpus weight
- DNB
DNB
27,753 corpus weight
- doigter
doigter
27,752 corpus weight
- domiciliaire
domiciliaire
27,750 corpus weight
- dormante
dormante
27,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DNB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DNB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛn.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #72,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DNB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DNB is uncommon French at frequency #72,248 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ɛn.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "« Diplôme national du brevet ».".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DNB, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is DNB, spelled D-N-B.
Definition
- 1« Diplôme national du brevet ».
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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