donkey
\dɒŋki\
The verdict
“donkey” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,114
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Âne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donkey · donkey · French
donkey · rank #46,114 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,114
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dolmen
Nearest frequency peer: dolmen (-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 « donkey »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diversement
diversement
53,890 corpus weight
- Dodd
Dodd
53,889 corpus weight
- dolmen
dolmen
53,888 corpus weight
- donkey
donkey
53,887 corpus weight
- donneras
donneras
53,886 corpus weight
- doublon
doublon
53,885 corpus weight
What this shows « donkey » 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 | donkey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɒŋki\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « donkey »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around donkey (IPA \dɒŋki\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,114 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Âne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for donkey, with forms such as "ddonkey", "dnokey", and "dokney". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "donne", "donner", "donnée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is donkey, spelled D-O-N-K-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Âne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonkey
- dnokey
- dokney
- doneky
- donkeyy
- donkkey
- donkye
- donnkey
- odnkey
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of donkey - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "donkey", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).