dress
\dʁɛs\
The verdict
“dress” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,990. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,990
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dressen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dress · dress · French
dress · rank #34,990 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,990
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH draper
Nearest frequency peer: draper (-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 « dress »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dominateur
dominateur
65,014 corpus weight
- dominicale
dominicale
65,013 corpus weight
- draper
draper
65,012 corpus weight
- dress
dress
65,011 corpus weight
- ducal
ducal
65,010 corpus weight
- débordée
débordée
65,009 corpus weight
What this shows « dress » 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 | dress |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dress »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dress (IPA \dʁɛs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,990 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dressen.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dress, with forms such as "ddress", "derss", and "dres". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Drs", "dues", "drew", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dress, spelled D-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dressen.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddress
- derss
- dres
- drress
- drses
- rdess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dress - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dress", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).