Dresde
\dʁɛzd\
The verdict
“Dresde” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,178. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,178
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale de la Saxe, en Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dresde · Dresde · French
Dresde · rank #23,178 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,178
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Donovan
Nearest frequency peer: Donovan (-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 « Dresde »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diversifiée
diversifiée
76,827 corpus weight
- Doha
Doha
76,826 corpus weight
- Donovan
Donovan
76,824 corpus weight
- Dresde
Dresde
76,823 corpus weight
- dressage
dressage
76,822 corpus weight
- dressent
dressent
76,821 corpus weight
What this shows « Dresde » 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 | Dresde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʁɛzd\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dresde »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Dresde (IPA \dʁɛzd\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,178 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dresde, with forms such as "ddresde", "dersde", and "dredse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dress", "dresse", "druide", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dresde, spelled D-R-E-S-D-E.
Definition
- 1Capitale de la Saxe, en Allemagne.
- 2Arrondissement administratif englobant cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dresde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dresde [est une] ville d’Allemagne dans le cercle de haute-Saxe, capitale de la Misnie & de l’électorat de Saxe : elle est sur l’Elbe, qui la divise en vieille & en neuve.
Ces dames s’établirent pour tout un hiver à Dresde, où l’un des cousins de Madame Van T. était consul. La ville baroque était encore là, gracieux rêve de pierre ; un peu moins d’un demi-siècle, et ce sera l’enfer où les fugitifs s’enliseront les pieds dans le macadam bouillant des rues et des routes, où les nobles bêtes du jardin zoologique, à demi brûlée…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddresde
- dersde
- dredse
- dresdde
- dresed
- dressde
- drresde
- drsede
- rdesde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dresde - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).