Datsun
The verdict
“Datsun” is uncommon French (frequency #85,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Automobile de la marque Datsun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-datsun · Datsun · French
Datsun · rank #85,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,618
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dauphines
Nearest frequency peer: dauphines (+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 « Datsun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- culturisme
culturisme
14,390 corpus weight
- curatifs
curatifs
14,389 corpus weight
- damnées
damnées
14,386 corpus weight
- dansa
dansa
14,385 corpus weight
- Datsun
Datsun
14,383 corpus weight
- dauphines
dauphines
14,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Datsun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Datsun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Datsun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Datsun is uncommon French at frequency #85,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Automobile de la marque Datsun.".
Datsun doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Datsun, spelled D-A-T-S-U-N.
Definition
- 1Automobile de la marque Datsun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Datsun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Datsun avait été remise en état dans les ateliers de Simon et s’y trouvait encore.
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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