SDF
\ɛs.de.ɛf\
The verdict
“SDF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,557) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,557
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne vivant dans la rue, sans logement, sans-abri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-sdf · SDF · French
SDF · rank #9,557 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,557
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Saône
Nearest frequency peer: Saône (-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 « SDF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- réussie
réussie
90,447 corpus weight
- sacrifices
sacrifices
90,446 corpus weight
- Saône
Saône
90,445 corpus weight
- SDF
SDF
90,444 corpus weight
- sean
sean
90,443 corpus weight
- Serbie
Serbie
90,442 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « SDF » 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 | SDF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs.de.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « SDF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SDF is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "si", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs.de.ɛf\. Frequency #9,557 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Personne vivant dans la rue, sans logement, sans-abri.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for SDF, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "si", "st", 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 SDF, spelled S-D-F.
Definition
- 1Personne vivant dans la rue, sans logement, sans-abri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SDF appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inutile de souligner que la restructuration du foyer vue par ce SDF de trente-deux ans suscita l'hilarité générale.
En grattant avec mon stylo, à travers les douleurs de ma canaille, me remontent parfois les mêmes larmes que je connus lorsque le Dieu des orphelins me fit rencontrer Marie, quatre ans, fille d'une SDF des rues de Paris.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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