Donbass
\dɔ̃.bas\
The verdict
“Donbass” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,231. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,231
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bassin houiller partagé entre l’Ukraine et la Russie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donbass · Donbass · French
Donbass · rank #41,231 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #41,231
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominical
Nearest frequency peer: dominical (-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 « Donbass »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Djerba
Djerba
58,774 corpus weight
- doll
doll
58,772 corpus weight
- dominical
dominical
58,771 corpus weight
- Donbass
Donbass
58,770 corpus weight
- dosages
dosages
58,769 corpus weight
- Dupond
Dupond
58,768 corpus weight
What this shows « Donbass » 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 | Donbass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɔ̃.bas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Donbass »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Donbass (IPA \dɔ̃.bas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #41,231 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bassin houiller partagé entre l’Ukraine et la Russie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Donbass, with forms such as "ddonbass", "dnobass", and "dobnass". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "donnais", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Donbass, spelled D-O-N-B-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Bassin houiller partagé entre l’Ukraine et la Russie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Donbass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec celui de Donetsk, il forme la région du Donbass, objectif affiché fin mars par le maître du Kremlin après son échec à prendre Kiev et à faire chuter le président Zelensky.
Des cartes russes montreraient un repli massif des troupes de Moscou vers le sud pour « renforcer » les positions prorusses du Donbass, selon l’état-major ukrainien.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonbass
- dnobass
- dobnass
- donabss
- donbas
- donbbass
- donbsas
- donnbass
- odnbass
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Donbass - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).