DPJ
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
- dorure
dorure
52,160 corpus weight
- doxa
doxa
52,159 corpus weight
- DPJ
DPJ
52,158 corpus weight
- draghi
draghi
52,157 corpus weight
- dulcinée
dulcinée
52,156 corpus weight
- duplication
duplication
52,155 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.
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 | DPJ |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DPJ »
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
- 1Direction de la Police Judiciaire.
- 2Direction de la protection de la jeunesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DPJ appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’assassinat de Ghislaine Barrère, commis trois mois après la condamnation de Chambaraud, a été confié à la DPJ de Nanterre.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).