dsl
\de.ɛs.ɛl\
The verdict
“dsl” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,601) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,601
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désolé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dsl · dsl · French
dsl · rank #21,601 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,601
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drôlement
Nearest frequency peer: drôlement (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dsl »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- donnais
donnais
78,403 corpus weight
- doudou
doudou
78,402 corpus weight
- drôlement
drôlement
78,401 corpus weight
- dsl
dsl
78,400 corpus weight
- dualité
dualité
78,399 corpus weight
- dysfonction…
dysfonctionnement
78,398 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dsl » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | dsl |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \de.ɛs.ɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dsl »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dsl is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dt", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \de.ɛs.ɛl\. Frequency #21,601 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Désolé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dsl, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dt", "DV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dsl, spelled D-S-L.
Definition
- 1Désolé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dsl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
G pas vu ton message, dsl
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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