dream
\dʁim\
The verdict
“dream” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,155
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme courte de dream trance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dream · dream · French
dream · rank #13,155 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,155
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divergences
Nearest frequency peer: divergences (-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 « dream »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- devises
devises
86,849 corpus weight
- dilemme
dilemme
86,848 corpus weight
- divergences
divergences
86,847 corpus weight
- dream
dream
86,846 corpus weight
- Dubaï
Dubaï
86,845 corpus weight
- Dumont
Dumont
86,844 corpus weight
What this shows « dream » 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 | dream |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁim\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dream »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dream (IPA \dʁim\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,155 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forme courte de dream trance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dream, with forms such as "ddream", "deram", and "dreamm". 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, "drew", "drum", "Dreux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dream, spelled D-R-E-A-M.
Definition
- 1Forme courte de dream trance.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddream
- deram
- dreamm
- drema
- drream
- rdeam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dream - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).