Dreyfus
\dʁe.fys\
The verdict
“Dreyfus” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,410
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille juif, originaire de la vallée du Rhin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dreyfus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʁe.fys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dreyfus” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dreyfus (IPA \dʁe.fys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,410 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dreyfus, with forms such as "ddreyfus", "deryfus", and "drefyus". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Dreyfus, spelled D-R-E-Y-F-U-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille juif, originaire de la vallée du Rhin.
- 2Alfred Dreyfus, militaire français qui, à la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, fut victime d’une erreur judiciaire et dont la condamnation provoqua une crise politique majeure, l’affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddreyfus
- deryfus
- drefyus
- dreyffus
- dreyfsu
- dreyfuss
- dreyufs
- dreyyfus
- drreyfus
- dryefus
- rdeyfus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dreyfus - 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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Using “Dreyfus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-R-E-Y-F-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dʁe.fys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.