Duce
[ˈduːt͡ʃə]
The verdict
“Duce” is uncommon German (frequency #77,873 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,873
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titel des Diktators des faschistischen Italiens Benito Mussolini
Corpus desk
Index DE-duce · Duce · German
Duce · rank #77,873 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,873
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dump
Nearest frequency peer: Dump (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Duce“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Dreiecken
Dreiecken
22,133 corpus weight
- Dschinn
Dschinn
22,130 corpus weight
- Duce
Duce
22,128 corpus weight
- Dump
Dump
22,127 corpus weight
- egozentrisch
egozentrisch
22,124 corpus weight
- Ehebett
Ehebett
22,123 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Duce“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duce |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈduːt͡ʃə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #77,873 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Duce“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Duce is uncommon German at frequency #77,873 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈduːt͡ʃə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titel des Diktators des faschistischen Italiens Benito Mussolini".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Duce, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Duce, spelled D-U-C-E.
Definition
- 1Titel des Diktators des faschistischen Italiens Benito Mussolini
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Duce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Währenddessen hatten die Überreste des Afrika-Korps in Tunesien kapituliert, und im Juli 1943, während die Deutschen an der Ostfront Schläge einstecken mußten, landeten britische und amerikanische Truppen in Sizilien. Noch vor Ende des Monats fegten die militärischen Katastrophen den Duce hinweg.“
„Vor der eigenen und der Weltöffentlichkeit rechtfertigt der Duce den Feldzug als Rache für Adua.“
Synonyms
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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