Ds
\deː\
The verdict
“Ds” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,426) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,426
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de D.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ds · Ds · French
Ds · rank #7,426 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,426
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH décalage
Nearest frequency peer: décalage (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Ds”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dom
dom
92,579 corpus weight
- doré
doré
92,577 corpus weight
- Ds
Ds
92,575 corpus weight
- décalage
décalage
92,574 corpus weight
- décidément
décidément
92,573 corpus weight
- dégradation
dégradation
92,572 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Ds” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Ds |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \deː\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Ds” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ds is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dt", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \deː\. Frequency #7,426 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de D.".
Ds has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dt", "DV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Ds, spelled D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de D.
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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- "Ds" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "du". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #7,426 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
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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.