dt
\de.bi\
The verdict
“dt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,423) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,423
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dt · dt · French
dt · rank #20,423 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,423
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dorsale
Nearest frequency peer: dorsale (-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 « dt »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Doris
Doris
79,581 corpus weight
- Dorothy
Dorothy
79,580 corpus weight
- dorsale
dorsale
79,579 corpus weight
- dt
dt
79,578 corpus weight
- durées
durées
79,577 corpus weight
- décharger
décharger
79,576 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dt » 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 | dt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.bi\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dt »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dt is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "DV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \de.bi\. Frequency #20,423 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Débit.".
dt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "DV", "dy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 dt, spelled D-T.
Definition
- 1Débit.
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.