dues
\dy\
The verdict
“dues” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,532) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,532
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dû.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dues · dues · French
dues · rank #8,532 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,532
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH down
Nearest frequency peer: down (-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 « dues »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- demoiselle
demoiselle
91,474 corpus weight
- dir
dir
91,471 corpus weight
- down
down
91,470 corpus weight
- dues
dues
91,469 corpus weight
- Dylan
Dylan
91,468 corpus weight
- décisive
décisive
91,466 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dues » 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 | dues |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dues »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dues is neighbouring look-alikes ("dur", "duo", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \dy\. Frequency #8,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dû.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for dues, with forms such as "ddues", "duess", and "duse". 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", "duo", "dus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dues, spelled D-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de dû.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddues
- duess
- duse
- udes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dues - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dues", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).