DPJ

name

The verdict

“DPJ” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,843) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#47,843
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Direction de la Police Judiciaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dpj · DPJ · French

DPJ · rank #47,843 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,843
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doxa

Nearest frequency peer: doxa (-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 « DPJ »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « DPJ » 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).

DPJ vs du
0% similar
DPJ vs dr
0% similar
DPJ vs Ds
33% similar

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

Key facts for DPJ
PropertyValue
HeadwordDPJ
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters3
Frequency rank#47,843
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DPJ »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « doxa » (#47,842), « draghi » (#47,844), « dorure » (#47,841). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « DPJ » est au #47,843. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for DPJ is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #47,843 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

DPJ has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is DPJ, spelled D-P-J.

Definition

  1. 1
    Direction de la Police Judiciaire.
  2. 2
    Direction de la protection de la jeunesse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’assassinat de Ghislaine Barrère, commis trois mois après la condamnation de Chambaraud, a été confié à la DPJ de Nanterre.
  2. En 2017 commence la grande aventure de l'adoption d'une petite protégée de la DPJ, ….

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 "DPJ"?
"DPJ" is spelled D-P-J.
What does "DPJ" mean?
As a proper noun, "DPJ" means: Direction de la Police Judiciaire.
What words are commonly confused with "DPJ"?
"DPJ" is commonly confused with "du", "dr", "Ds". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "DPJ" come from?
"DPJ" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list