donnéevsDonnieConfusable pair

Quick tell: donnée is a noun, Donnie is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“donnée” is a noun and “Donnie” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,514
“donnée” frequency rank
#47,839
“Donnie” frequency rank
50353
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature donnée Donnie
Definition Information sur un sujet particulier, qui, avec d’autres données, sert de base à la réflexion ou l'étude de ce sujet. Prénom masculin.

Letter map: donnée vs Donnie

Shared letters muted; letters that set donnée and Donnie apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. donnée and Donnie follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
donnée
6 ch
Donnie

Grammar separator: donnée vs Donnie

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: donnée is anoun and Donnieaname. On the page they differ by a single letter - é in “donnée” becomes i in “Donnie”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50353, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

donnée is recorded at frequency rank #2,514, classified as anoun, pronounced \dɔ.ne\. Donnie is at rank #47,839, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 50353, this pair ranks #163,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of donnée vs Donnie

Shared letters: deno. Private to "donnée": é. Private to "Donnie": i.

"donnée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV  ·  "Donnie" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Donnieddonnie · dnonie · donie · donine · donnei · odnnie

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "donnée" for "Donnie" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "donnée" is a noun and "Donnie" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "donnée" or "Donnie" show up more?
"donnée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,514 in our French list, against #47,839 for "Donnie". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "donnée" and "Donnie". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "donnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Donnie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #163,304 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "donnée" and "Donnie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Donnie vs donniez". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #163,304 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list