dream

/\dʁim\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,155

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

dream is aFrenchnoun. It means: Forme courte de dream trance. Pronounced \dʁim\. Often confused with drew and drum.

Key facts for dream
PropertyValue
Headworddream
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁim\
Letters5
Frequency rank#13,155
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dream in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dream is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁim\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,155 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forme courte de dream trance.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dream, with forms such as "ddream", "deram", and "dreamm". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drew", "drum", "Dreux", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dream, spelled D-R-E-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forme courte de dream trance.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddream,deram,dreamm,drema,drream,rdeam

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dream

Misspelling Variants of "dream"

ddream6deram5dreamm6drema5drream6rdeam5
Misspelling Variants of "dream"

Frequency rank: #13,155 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dream"?
"dream" is spelled D-R-E-A-M. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁim\.
What does "dream" mean?
As a noun, "dream" means: Forme courte de dream trance.
What words are commonly confused with "dream"?
"dream" is commonly confused with "drew", "drum", "Dreux". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dream"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dream" is \dʁim\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dream" come from?
"dream" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.