Daoust

name

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The verdict

“Daoust” is uncommon French (frequency #56,534 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,534
frequency rank, French
404,891
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille au Québec.

Key facts for Daoust
PropertyValue
HeadwordDaoust
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#56,534
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Daoust” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Daoust lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Daoust is uncommon French at frequency #56,534 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille au Québec.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Daoust, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Daoust, spelled D-A-O-U-S-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille au Québec.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Daoust"?
"Daoust" is spelled D-A-O-U-S-T.
What does "Daoust" mean?
As a proper noun, "Daoust" means: Nom de famille au Québec.
What language does "Daoust" come from?
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Using “Daoust”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-A-O-U-S-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list