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
- Datenstrom
Datenstrom
354 corpus weight
- Datenverlust
Datenverlust
353 corpus weight
- Dauphine
Dauphine
351 corpus weight
- define
define
347 corpus weight
- dehnbarer
dehnbarer
346 corpus weight
- Deodorant
Deodorant
345 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dauphine“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dauphine |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Dauphine“ im Deutschen
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
- 1Titel der Gattin des Thronerben des Königs von Frankreich
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dauphine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„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.“
„[…] [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…
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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.
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