DV
The verdict
“DV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,287) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,287
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déficient visuel, déficiente visuelle (personne qui voit mal).
Corpus desk
Index FR-dv · DV · French
DV · rank #37,287 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,287
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dum
Nearest frequency peer: dum (-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 « DV »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- dubitatif
dubitatif
62,716 corpus weight
- dum
dum
62,715 corpus weight
- DV
DV
62,714 corpus weight
- déchaînée
déchaînée
62,713 corpus weight
- déclinée
déclinée
62,712 corpus weight
- décéder
décéder
62,711 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « DV » 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 | DV |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #37,287 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « DV »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for DV is neighbouring look-alikes ("dy", "dz", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #37,287 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for DV in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dy", "dz", "DVD", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is DV, spelled D-V.
Definition
- 1Déficient visuel, déficiente visuelle (personne qui voit mal).
- 2Décubitus ventral.
- 3Double vitrage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un menuisier me propose des fenêtres en DV 4/20/4 ITR en pin pour 45500.
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.