dub
\dœb\
The verdict
“dub” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,777) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,777
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre musical, basé sur un remix mettant en évidence les sons de basse et le rythme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dub · dub · French
dub · rank #27,777 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,777
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Drucker
Nearest frequency peer: Drucker (-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 « dub »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dominicain
dominicain
72,228 corpus weight
- doom
doom
72,227 corpus weight
- Doria
Doria
72,226 corpus weight
- Drucker
Drucker
72,225 corpus weight
- dub
dub
72,224 corpus weight
- Dwight
Dwight
72,221 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dub » 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 | dub |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dœb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dub »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dub is neighbouring look-alikes ("DV", "dy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dœb\. Frequency #27,777 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Genre musical, basé sur un remix mettant en évidence les sons de basse et le rythme.".
dub has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DV", "dy", "dz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dub, spelled D-U-B.
Definition
- 1Genre musical, basé sur un remix mettant en évidence les sons de basse et le rythme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dub appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais de la fin des années 50 jusqu’au début des années 80, Harriott a fait partie des artistes jamaïcains à succès les plus réguliers, un des rares à avoir évolué à travers le rhythm'n'blues, le ska, le rocksteady, le reggae et le dub en produisant des hits internationaux pour lui-même et pour d’autres artistes avec une conviction sans faille.
L’intégration de langues autochtones dans la musique contemporaine participe de la fierté de jeunes Amérindiens. Dub kali’na, R’n’B teko, reggae wayana… comptent aujourd’hui parmi les tubes guyanais.
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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