damoiseau
\da.mwa.zo\
The verdict
“damoiseau” is uncommon French (frequency #70,516 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,516
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune gentilhomme qui n’était point encore reçu chevalier, et qui aspirait à l’être. Jeune noble accompagnant le châtelain ou la châtelaine à la chasse, à la promenade, en voyage, etc. → voir page
Corpus desk
Index FR-damoiseau · damoiseau · French
damoiseau · rank #70,516 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,516
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH cyclotourisme
Nearest frequency peer: cyclotourisme (-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 « damoiseau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cus
cus
29,488 corpus weight
- cutie
cutie
29,487 corpus weight
- cyclotouris…
cyclotourisme
29,486 corpus weight
- damoiseau
damoiseau
29,485 corpus weight
- dansants
dansants
29,484 corpus weight
- darjeeling
darjeeling
29,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « damoiseau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | damoiseau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.mwa.zo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #70,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « damoiseau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
damoiseau is uncommon French at frequency #70,516 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.mwa.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
damoiseau doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 French form is damoiseau, spelled D-A-M-O-I-S-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Jeune gentilhomme qui n’était point encore reçu chevalier, et qui aspirait à l’être. Jeune noble accompagnant le châtelain ou la châtelaine à la chasse, à la promenade, en voyage, etc. → voir page
- 2Homme qui fait le beau, le galant auprès des femmes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how damoiseau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
HARPAGON : Voilà de mes damoiseaux flouets qui n’ont pas plus de vigueur que des poules.
Oh certes, il aurait tout abandonné dans la seconde à Dieu, sans l'ombre d'une hésitation, mais certainement pas aux hommes censés le représenter ; afin qu'ils pètent dans la soie, entretiennent sur un grand pied leurs catins ou damoiseaux, ou dilapident son argent en mangeries et en beuveries ?
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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