Daphnis
\da.fnis\
The verdict
“Daphnis” is uncommon French (frequency #67,424 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,424
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Berger et poète pastoral de la mythologie grecque, fils d’Hermès et d’une nymphe sicilienne, frère de Pan, et descendant des Titans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daphnis · Daphnis · French
Daphnis · rank #67,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,424
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH D6
Nearest frequency peer: D6 (-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 « Daphnis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céans
céans
32,581 corpus weight
- célébrez
célébrez
32,580 corpus weight
- D6
D6
32,578 corpus weight
- Daphnis
Daphnis
32,577 corpus weight
- decoration
decoration
32,576 corpus weight
- demeurez
demeurez
32,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Daphnis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Daphnis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.fnis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Daphnis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Daphnis is uncommon French at frequency #67,424 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.fnis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Daphnis has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Daphnis, spelled D-A-P-H-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Berger et poète pastoral de la mythologie grecque, fils d’Hermès et d’une nymphe sicilienne, frère de Pan, et descendant des Titans.
- 2Daphnis et Chloé : Pastorale de Longus (IVᵉ siècle av. J.-C.).
- 3Daphnis et Chloé : Suite chorégraphique de Maurice Ravel^([*]) (1912).
- 4Satellite naturel de la planète Saturne.
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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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