Dauphine

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The verdict

“Dauphine” is uncommon German (frequency #99,650 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,650
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titel der Gattin des Thronerben des Königs von Frankreich

Corpus desk

Index DE-dauphine · Dauphine · German

Dauphine · rank #99,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,650
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH Datenverlust

Nearest frequency peer: Datenverlust (-2 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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Dauphine“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dauphine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Dauphine
PropertyValue
HeadwordDauphine
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#99,650
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Dauphine“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).Dauphinefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Datenverlust“ (#99,648), „Datenstrom“ (#99,647), „define“ (#99,654). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „Dauphine“ bei #99,650. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Dauphine is uncommon German at frequency #99,650 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titel der Gattin des Thronerben des Königs von Frankreich".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dauphine, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Dauphine, spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Titel der Gattin des Thronerben des Königs von Frankreich

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Dauphine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Baletti hatte es eilig, nach Paris zu kommen, wo in Erwartung der Geburt eines Herzogs von Burgund prachtvolle Feste in Vorbereitung waren; denn die Frau Dauphine sah ihrer Niederkunft entgegen.“
  2. „[…] [I]ch fragte den Kellner, ob es etwas Neues gäbe; er antwortete, die Dauphine sei mit einem Prinzen niedergekommen. Ein Abbé, der dicht nebenan an einem Tische saß, sagte zu ihm: »Unsinn! sie hat eine Prinzessin zur Welt gebracht.« Ein Dritter trat heran und sagte: »Ich komme eben von Versailles; die Dauphine hat weder einen Prinzen noch eine Prinzes…

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Dauphine"?
"Dauphine" is spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Dauphine" mean?
As a noun, "Dauphine" means: Titel der Gattin des Thronerben des Königs von Frankreich
How do you pronounce "Dauphine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Dauphine" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Dauphine" come from?
"Dauphine" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Dauphine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list