dungeon
\ˈdʌn.dʒən\
The verdict
“dungeon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,034
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cachot, oubliette, prison dans le sous-sol d’un château.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dungeon · dungeon · French
dungeon · rank #49,034 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drunk
Nearest frequency peer: drunk (-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 « dungeon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- droitiers
droitiers
50,970 corpus weight
- dromadaire
dromadaire
50,969 corpus weight
- drunk
drunk
50,968 corpus weight
- dungeon
dungeon
50,967 corpus weight
- dyslexie
dyslexie
50,965 corpus weight
- décennale
décennale
50,964 corpus weight
What this shows « dungeon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dungeon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdʌn.dʒən\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dungeon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dungeon (IPA \ˈdʌn.dʒən\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,034 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dungeon, with forms such as "ddungeon", "dnugeon", and "dugneon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dungeon, spelled D-U-N-G-E-O-N.
Definition
- 1Cachot, oubliette, prison dans le sous-sol d’un château.
- 2Dans les jeux de rôle, et en particulier dans Donjons & Dragons, désigne un lieu clos, souvent des cavernes ou un château, qu’un groupe d’aventuriers doit explorer. En français, on utilise le faux-ami « donjon ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddungeon
- dnugeon
- dugneon
- dunegon
- dungeno
- dungeonn
- dunggeon
- dungoen
- dunngeon
- udngeon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dungeon - 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 "dungeon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).