Dupre
"dupre" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dupre” is uncommon English (frequency #76,738 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,738
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dupre · Dupre · English
Dupre · rank #76,738 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,738
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH dumper
Nearest frequency peer: dumper (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Dupre”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dumbstruck
dumbstruck
23,265 corpus weight
- dumper
dumper
23,264 corpus weight
- Dupre
Dupre
23,263 corpus weight
- dut
dut
23,262 corpus weight
- earwax
earwax
23,261 corpus weight
- Eastham
Eastham
23,260 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Dupre” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dupre |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,738 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Dupre” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Dupre is uncommon English at frequency #76,738 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dupre, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French du Pré literally ‘of the meadow/pasture’ The correct English form is Dupre, spelled D-U-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1A surname from French.
Etymology
From French du Pré literally ‘of the meadow/pasture’
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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