done
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
- dissidents
dissidents
79,019 corpus weight
- distante
distante
79,018 corpus weight
- domino
domino
79,016 corpus weight
- done
done
79,015 corpus weight
- douloureuses
douloureuses
79,014 corpus weight
- Duflot
Duflot
79,012 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.
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 | done |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « done »
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
- 1Demoiselle, jeune dame, parfois opposé à dame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how done appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 "done", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).