duché
\dy.ʃe\
The verdict
“duché” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,815
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Seigneurie, principauté à laquelle le titre de duc est attaché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duche · duché · French
duché · rank #9,815 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,815
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diana
Nearest frequency peer: Diana (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « duché »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- curieuse
curieuse
90,189 corpus weight
- Deschamps
Deschamps
90,188 corpus weight
- Diana
Diana
90,187 corpus weight
- duché
duché
90,186 corpus weight
- durent
durent
90,185 corpus weight
- dus
dus
90,184 corpus weight
What this shows « duché » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | duché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « duché »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around duché (IPA \dy.ʃe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,815 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Seigneurie, principauté à laquelle le titre de duc est attaché.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for duché, with forms such as "dcuhé", "dduché", and "ducché". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "due", "dure", "ducs", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is duché, spelled D-U-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Seigneurie, principauté à laquelle le titre de duc est attaché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre la Slovaquie et la Tchéquie proprement dite ou le royaume de Bohème, s'étend le duché de Moravie, qui, avec plusieurs districts de Silésie, fait également partie intégrante du territoire des Tchéquo-Slaves.
Le duché de Salzbourg, avec ses 7000 kilomètres carrés et ses 150000 habitants, est la plus petite des provinces de la monarchie austro-hongroise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcuhé
- dduché
- ducché
- duche
- duchhé
- ducéh
- duhcé
- udché
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duché - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).