do
\do\
The verdict
“do” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,819) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,819
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première note de la gamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-do · do · French
do · rank #2,819 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,819
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deviennent
Nearest frequency peer: deviennent (-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 « do »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- connaissanc…
connaissances
97,185 corpus weight
- conserver
conserver
97,184 corpus weight
- deviennent
deviennent
97,183 corpus weight
- do
do
97,182 corpus weight
- donnant
donnant
97,181 corpus weight
- définitivem…
définitivement
97,180 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « do » 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 | do |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \do\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « do »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for do is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \do\. Frequency #2,819 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for do, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is do, spelled D-O.
Definition
- 1Première note de la gamme.
- 2Do de l’octave du milieu dans la gamme d’un instrument de musique par opposition à l’octave inférieure ou supérieure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how do appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il avait éprouvé cette mortelle sensation, à la suite d’un embarquement sur un do naturel au lieu d’un do dièze.
La gamme en cornemuse : sol grave, la grave, si, do, ré, mi, fa, sol aigu, la aigu.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.