dundee
\dɛ̃.de\
The verdict
“dundee” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,606
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deux-mâts possédant une queue de malet, utilisé pour la pêche au thon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dundee · dundee · French
dundee · rank #49,606 · 8 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,606
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dray
Nearest frequency peer: dray (-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 « dundee »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- donniez
donniez
50,398 corpus weight
- doutant
doutant
50,397 corpus weight
- dray
dray
50,396 corpus weight
- dundee
dundee
50,395 corpus weight
- dèche
dèche
50,394 corpus weight
- débattues
débattues
50,393 corpus weight
What this shows « dundee » 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 | dundee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dundee »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around dundee (IPA \dɛ̃.de\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,606 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deux-mâts possédant une queue de malet, utilisé pour la pêche au thon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dundee, with forms such as "ddundee", "dnudee", and "dudnee". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "durée", "dunes", "dude", 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 dundee, spelled D-U-N-D-E-E.
Definition
- 1Deux-mâts possédant une queue de malet, utilisé pour la pêche au thon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dundee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeune capitaine au long cours Mallier du Baty, parti pour tenter fortune avec son frère et trois matelots, sur un dundee de 40 tonneaux, aux îles Kerguelen.
Le fait le plus remarquable à signaler est la diminution sensible du nombre des voiliers armés. En 1911, les ports de Reykiavik et d’Hafnarfjord envoyaient à la mer 43 dundees ; l'année dernière, ce nombre était réduit à 36; cette année, il est tombé à 22.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddundee
- dnudee
- dudnee
- dunddee
- dunde
- dunede
- dunndee
- udndee
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dundee - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).