dodo
\do.do\
The verdict
“dodo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S'emploie pour demander à un enfant de dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dodo · dodo · French
dodo · rank #14,451 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,451
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distincte
Nearest frequency peer: distincte (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dodo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- disputes
disputes
85,552 corpus weight
- distincte
distincte
85,551 corpus weight
- dodo
dodo
85,550 corpus weight
- doive
doive
85,549 corpus weight
- donnaient
donnaient
85,548 corpus weight
- Dortmund
Dortmund
85,547 corpus weight
What this shows « dodo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | dodo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \do.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dodo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around dodo (IPA \do.do\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #14,451 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "S'emploie pour demander à un enfant de dormir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for dodo, with forms such as "ddodo", "ddoo", and "doddo". 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", "duo", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dodo, spelled D-O-D-O.
Definition
- 1S'emploie pour demander à un enfant de dormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dodo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dodo, l’enfant do, l’enfant dormira bientôt
— Dodo, Spy, dodo, mon petit loulou !…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddodo
- ddoo
- doddo
- dood
- oddo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dodo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).