done

noun

The verdict

“done” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,986) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#20,986
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Demoiselle, jeune dame, parfois opposé à dame.

Corpus desk

Index FR-done · done · French

done · rank #20,986 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,986
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH domino

Nearest frequency peer: domino (-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 « done »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « done » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

done vs dos
50% similar
done vs due
50% similar
done vs dot
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for done
PropertyValue
Headworddone
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#20,986
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « done »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.donese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « domino » (#20,985), « douloureuses » (#20,987), « distante » (#20,983). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « done » est au #20,986. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for done is neighbouring look-alikes ("dos", "due", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,986 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Demoiselle, jeune dame, parfois opposé à dame.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for done, with forms such as "ddone", "dnoe", and "doen". 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", "due", "dot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is done, spelled D-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Demoiselle, jeune dame, parfois opposé à dame.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how done appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Done ! Que fors m’en isse !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddone
  • dnoe
  • doen

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of done - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddone1dnoe2doen2
Edit distance from "done"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "done"?
"done" is spelled D-O-N-E.
What does "done" mean?
As a noun, "done" means: Demoiselle, jeune dame, parfois opposé à dame.
What words are commonly confused with "done"?
"done" is commonly confused with "dos", "due", "dot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "done" come from?
"done" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "done", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list