Dodd
\dɔd\
The verdict
“Dodd” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,112) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,112
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dodd · Dodd · French
Dodd · rank #46,112 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,112
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diversement
Nearest frequency peer: diversement (-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 « Dodd »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- disparurent
disparurent
53,892 corpus weight
- distingua
distingua
53,891 corpus weight
- diversement
diversement
53,890 corpus weight
- Dodd
Dodd
53,889 corpus weight
- dolmen
dolmen
53,888 corpus weight
- donkey
donkey
53,887 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Dodd » 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 | Dodd |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɔd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Dodd »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Dodd is neighbouring look-alikes ("dos", "don", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \dɔd\. Frequency #46,112 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dodd, with forms such as "ddod", "ddodd", and "dod". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "don", "DVD", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dodd, spelled D-O-D-D.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddod
- ddodd
- dod
- oddd
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dodd - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).