druide

\dʁɥid\

/\dʁɥid\/ noun

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The verdict

“druide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,224. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,224
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre de la classe sacerdotale chez les Celtes de Gaule, de Bretagne et d’Irlande.

Corpus desk

Index FR-druide · druide · French

druide · rank #33,224 · 8 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,224
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dreams

Nearest frequency peer: dreams (-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 « druide »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « druide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

druide vs dude
67% similar
druide vs druides
86% similar
druide vs drive
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for druide
PropertyValue
Headworddruide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dʁɥid\
Letters6
Frequency rank#33,224
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « druide »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.druidese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dreams » (#33,223), « Duceppe » (#33,225), « drain » (#33,222). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « druide » est au #33,224. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around druide (IPA \dʁɥid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for druide, with forms such as "ddruide", "driude", and "drruide". 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, "dude", "druides", "drive", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is druide, spelled D-R-U-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre de la classe sacerdotale chez les Celtes de Gaule, de Bretagne et d’Irlande.
  2. 2
    Magicien capable de contrôler les plantes et les animaux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how druide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La réunion annuelle des druides dans la forêt des Carnutes.
  2. Un vaste espace ouvert, au milieu de cette clairière, paraissait avoir été autrefois voué aux rites de la superstition des druides.

Synonyms

semnothéesaronide

This word in other languages

druid(English)druida(Español)Druide(Deutsch)druida(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddruide
  • driude
  • drruide
  • drudie
  • druidde
  • druied
  • duride
  • rduide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of druide - 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.

ddruide1driude2drruide1drudie2druidde1druied2duride2rduide2
Edit distance from "druide"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "druide"?
"druide" is spelled D-R-U-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁɥid\.
What does "druide" mean?
As a noun, "druide" means: Membre de la classe sacerdotale chez les Celtes de Gaule, de Bretagne et d’Irlande.
What words are commonly confused with "druide"?
"druide" is commonly confused with "dude", "druides", "drive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "druide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "druide" is \dʁɥid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "druide" come from?
"druide" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "druide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dreams#33,223Duclos#33,226during#33,227décore#33,232

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Duceppe8 variantsdoyenne8 variantsDebian8 variantscédés8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list