Duval
\dy.val\
The verdict
“Duval” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duval · Duval · French
Duval · rank #15,857 · 7 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,857
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débarquent
Nearest frequency peer: débarquent (+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 « Duval »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distraire
distraire
84,148 corpus weight
- dormait
dormait
84,146 corpus weight
- Duval
Duval
84,144 corpus weight
- débarquent
débarquent
84,143 corpus weight
- déborde
déborde
84,142 corpus weight
- déguisement
déguisement
84,141 corpus weight
What this shows « Duval » 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 | Duval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.val\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Duval »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Duval (IPA \dy.val\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,857 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Duval, with forms such as "dduval", "duavl", and "duvall". 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. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "duvet", "dal", "duel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Duval, spelled D-U-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Duval appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Harcelé par ses supérieurs, eux-mêmes en butte à de pressantes interventions émanant de personnalités influentes et même du « Château », l’inspecteur Duval en arrivait à se demander si le rédacteur du bordereau gagnant — puisque ce bordereau gagnant existe, se disait-il avec rage en contemplant la souche correspondante, hélas anonyme — finirait par présen…
« En Île-de-France, on peut faire un repas complet en n’utilisant que des produits d’Île-de-France ! », confie avec fierté Stéphane Duval, fondateur de l’huilerie Avernoise qui fabrique, à Avernes (95), une huile de colza 100% locale plusieurs fois primée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dduval
- duavl
- duvall
- duvla
- duvval
- dvual
- udval
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Duval - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).