Duce
[ˈduːt͡ʃə]
The verdict
“Duce” is an uncommon German word, ranked #77,873 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #77,873
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Titel des Diktators des faschistischen Italiens Benito Mussolini
| 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) |
Where “Duce” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Duce is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈduːt͡ʃə]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,873 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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
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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Using “Duce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-U-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈduːt͡ʃə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.