ducs
\dyk\
The verdict
“ducs” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,017
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de duc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ducs · ducs · French
ducs · rank #14,017 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,017
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Doug
Nearest frequency peer: Doug (-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 « ducs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donjon
donjon
85,987 corpus weight
- douches
douches
85,986 corpus weight
- Doug
Doug
85,985 corpus weight
- ducs
ducs
85,984 corpus weight
- Duncan
Duncan
85,983 corpus weight
- débrouiller
débrouiller
85,982 corpus weight
What this shows « ducs » 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 | ducs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dyk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ducs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ducs (IPA \dyk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,017 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de duc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ducs, with forms such as "dcus", "dducs", and "duccs". 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ducs, spelled D-U-C-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de duc.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcus
- dducs
- duccs
- ducss
- dusc
- udcs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ducs - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).