Drancy
\dʁɑ̃.si\
The verdict
“Drancy” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,731. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,731
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-drancy · Drancy · French
Drancy · rank #29,731 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,731
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dow
Nearest frequency peer: dow (-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 « Drancy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donnèrent
donnèrent
70,273 corpus weight
- dortoirs
dortoirs
70,272 corpus weight
- dow
dow
70,271 corpus weight
- Drancy
Drancy
70,270 corpus weight
- drug
drug
70,269 corpus weight
- dry
dry
70,268 corpus weight
What this shows « Drancy » 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 | Drancy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʁɑ̃.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Drancy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Drancy (IPA \dʁɑ̃.si\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,731 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Drancy, with forms such as "darncy", "ddrancy", and "dracny". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "dray", "Durance", "dany", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Drancy, spelled D-R-A-N-C-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
- 3Canton français, situé dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Drancy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce lundi, se tient le procès en diffamation intenté par l’ex-maire de Drancy contre la journaliste Eve Szeftel pour son livre Le Maire et les Barbares, dans lequel elle dénonçait notamment les pratiques clientélistes de Jean-Christophe Lagarde.
Ainsi, on peut désormais aller aux archives Suzanne-Citron à Bobigny et déposer ses enfants aux crèches Emmi-Pikler et Virginia-Apgar à Drancy, Suzanne-Lacore et Betty-Williams à La Courneuve et Mariama-Bâ à Épinay-sur-Seine.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- darncy
- ddrancy
- dracny
- dranccy
- drancyy
- dranncy
- dranyc
- drnacy
- drrancy
- rdancy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Drancy - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).