Dafoe
\da.fɔ\
The verdict
“Dafoe” is uncommon French (frequency #83,760 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,760
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dafoe · Dafoe · French
Dafoe · rank #83,760 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,760
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH damages
Nearest frequency peer: damages (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Dafoe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céladon
céladon
16,245 corpus weight
- céphalée
céphalée
16,244 corpus weight
- céramistes
céramistes
16,243 corpus weight
- Dafoe
Dafoe
16,241 corpus weight
- damages
damages
16,240 corpus weight
- dandin
dandin
16,238 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dafoe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dafoe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.fɔ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,760 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dafoe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dafoe is uncommon French at frequency #83,760 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.fɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dafoe, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dafoe, spelled D-A-F-O-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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