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
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille juif, originaire de la vallée du Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dreyfus · Dreyfus · French
Dreyfus · rank #17,410 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissimulé
Nearest frequency peer: dissimulé (-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 « Dreyfus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diabolique
diabolique
82,594 corpus weight
- dialecte
dialecte
82,593 corpus weight
- dissimulé
dissimulé
82,592 corpus weight
- Dreyfus
Dreyfus
82,591 corpus weight
- décoratifs
décoratifs
82,589 corpus weight
- délégations
délégations
82,588 corpus weight
What this shows « Dreyfus » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dreyfus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Dreyfus (IPA \dʁe.fys\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,410 among 5,307 “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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dreyfus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne cherchez pas de terre, « on est en hydroponie, explique Gilles Dreyfus. L’eau, mélangée à des sels minéraux et des nutriments, apporte aux racines ce qu’elles trouvent habituellement dans la terre. »
Fondée sur Valérie Poulain de Saint Père, Axel Dreyfus et Lionel Auroux en 2021, elle est la première école systémique sur le sujet.
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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