dona
The verdict
“dona” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,903) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,903
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sainte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dona · dona · French
dona · rank #35,903 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,903
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DN
Nearest frequency peer: DN (-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 « dona »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dissection
dissection
64,101 corpus weight
- dissipe
dissipe
64,100 corpus weight
- DN
DN
64,099 corpus weight
- dona
dona
64,098 corpus weight
- déballer
déballer
64,097 corpus weight
- débarasser
débarasser
64,096 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dona » 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 | dona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dona »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dona is neighbouring look-alikes ("dos", "dot", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #35,903 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Sainte.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dona, with forms such as "ddona", "dnoa", and "doan". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "dot", "dun", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dona, spelled D-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Sainte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Andre Dona Maria.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddona
- dnoa
- doan
- odna
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dona - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dona", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).