DSP
\de.ɛs.pe\
The verdict
“DSP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,721) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,721
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de microprocesseur spécialisé dans le traitement du signal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dsp · DSP · French
DSP · rank #40,721 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,721
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dubuisson
Nearest frequency peer: Dubuisson (+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 « DSP »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- doigté
doigté
59,284 corpus weight
- domina
domina
59,282 corpus weight
- DSP
DSP
59,280 corpus weight
- Dubuisson
Dubuisson
59,279 corpus weight
- déchirement
déchirement
59,277 corpus weight
- décoloration
décoloration
59,276 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DSP » 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 | DSP |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛs.pe\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DSP »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DSP is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dt", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \de.ɛs.pe\. Frequency #40,721 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DSP, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dt", "DV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is DSP, spelled D-S-P.
Definition
- 1Sorte de microprocesseur spécialisé dans le traitement du signal.
- 2Type de toxine provenant d’algues marines microscopiques et provoquant des diarrhées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how DSP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis peu, nous trouvons des toxines atypiques dans les coquillages comestibles, reprit Cailly sans se troubler. Des composés qui ne s’apparentent à aucune phycotoxine connue et peuvent se manifester seuls ou en même temps que les toxines du DSP.
Ce groupe inclut notamment les toxines diarrhéiques ou DSP (diarrheic shellfish poisoning).
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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