duck

noun

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The verdict

“duck” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,624. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,624
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toile épaisse et résistante utilisée pour des bâches, de tentes, des voiles, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-duck · duck · French

duck · rank #25,624 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,624
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dual

Nearest frequency peer: dual (-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 « duck »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « duck » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

duck vs dur
50% similar
duck vs due
50% similar
duck vs duo
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for duck
PropertyValue
Headwordduck
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#25,624
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « duck »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.duckse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dual » (#25,623), « décathlon » (#25,625), « défensives » (#25,626). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « duck » est au #25,624. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around duck, anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,624 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Toile épaisse et résistante utilisée pour des bâches, de tentes, des voiles, etc.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for duck, with forms such as "dcuk", "dduck", and "ducck". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dur", "due", "duo", 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 duck, spelled D-U-C-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Toile épaisse et résistante utilisée pour des bâches, de tentes, des voiles, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how duck appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Toile (duck) de coton, écrue ou blanche, pesant plus de 8 onces par verge carrée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dcuk
  • dduck
  • ducck
  • duckk
  • dukc
  • udck

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of duck - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

dcuk2dduck1ducck1duckk1dukc2udck2
Edit distance from "duck"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "duck"?
"duck" is spelled D-U-C-K.
What does "duck" mean?
As a noun, "duck" means: Toile épaisse et résistante utilisée pour des bâches, de tentes, des voiles, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "duck"?
"duck" is commonly confused with "dur", "due", "duo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "duck" come from?
"duck" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "duck", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dual#25,623coqs#25,606Fund#25,661GIFs#25,665

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

gillet6 variantsAkira6 variantslaiton6 variantslouée6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list