dauphines
\do.fin\
The verdict
“dauphines” is uncommon French (frequency #85,619 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,619
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dauphin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dauphines · dauphines · French
dauphines · rank #85,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,619
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Datsun
Nearest frequency peer: Datsun (-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 « dauphines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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curatifs
14,389 corpus weight
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damnées
14,386 corpus weight
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dansa
14,385 corpus weight
- Datsun
Datsun
14,383 corpus weight
- dauphines
dauphines
14,382 corpus weight
- Delaplace
Delaplace
14,376 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dauphines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dauphines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \do.fin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dauphines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dauphines is uncommon French at frequency #85,619 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \do.fin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dauphin.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dauphines in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dauphines, spelled D-A-U-P-H-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de dauphin.
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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