donne
\dɔn\
The verdict
“donne” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #326) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #326
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de donner, de distribuer les cartes, dans un jeu de cartes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donne · donne · French
donne · rank #326 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #326
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH article
Nearest frequency peer: article (-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 « donne »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- seule
seule
99,678 corpus weight
- accord
accord
99,677 corpus weight
- article
article
99,676 corpus weight
- donne
donne
99,675 corpus weight
- donner
donner
99,674 corpus weight
- ligne
ligne
99,673 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « donne » 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 | donne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « donne »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for donne is neighbouring look-alikes ("dont", "dons", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dɔn\. Frequency #326 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for donne, with forms such as "ddonne", "dnone", and "donen". 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, "dont", "dons", "Dose", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is donne, spelled D-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Action de donner, de distribuer les cartes, dans un jeu de cartes.
- 2Résultat de cette action, cartes dont dispose un joueur.
- 3Ce dont dispose un individu dans une relation sociale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how donne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque, pendant la donne, il s’établissait de ces nauséabondes dissertations, le chevalier tirait sa tabatière par un geste digne de Molé, regardait la princesse Goritza, levait dignement le couvercle, massait sa prise, la vannait, la lévigeait, la façonnait en talus ; puis, quand les cartes étaient données, il avait garni les antres de son nez et replac…
Bien sûr, la difficulté réside dans le fait que ces signes s'échangent juste après la donne, à un moment où tous les joueurs s’épient, chacun cherchant tout aussi bien à surprendre les signes de ses adversaires qu’à communiquer avec son partenaire sans être vu de ceux-là.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonne
- dnone
- donen
- odnne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of donne - 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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