DSM
\de.ɛs.ɛm\
The verdict
“DSM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,767) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,767
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manuel classifiant les troubles mentaux, pour un usage statistique, expérimental, de diagnostic ou d’expertise médico-légale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dsm · DSM · French
DSM · rank #37,767 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,767
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH druides
Nearest frequency peer: druides (-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 « DSM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dominées
dominées
62,237 corpus weight
- drink
drink
62,236 corpus weight
- druides
druides
62,235 corpus weight
- DSM
DSM
62,234 corpus weight
- Dupin
Dupin
62,233 corpus weight
- Durance
Durance
62,232 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DSM » 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 | DSM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛs.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DSM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DSM is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dt", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \de.ɛs.ɛm\. Frequency #37,767 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Manuel classifiant les troubles mentaux, pour un usage statistique, expérimental, de diagnostic ou d’expertise médico-légale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for DSM, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 DSM, spelled D-S-M.
Definition
- 1Manuel classifiant les troubles mentaux, pour un usage statistique, expérimental, de diagnostic ou d’expertise médico-légale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DSM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils viennent de décider de ne pas inclure le trouble bipolaire infanto-juvénile dans le prochain DSM.
Tout d’abord la grande étude NESARC réalisée aux États-Unis a étudié, en population générale, des patients dépendants selon les critères du DSM IV.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).