Davide

name

The verdict

“Davide” is uncommon French (frequency #53,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,889
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, correspondant à David.

Corpus desk

Index FR-davide · Davide · French

Davide · rank #53,889 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,889
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Darby

Nearest frequency peer: Darby (-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 « Davide »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Davide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Davide
PropertyValue
HeadwordDavide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#53,889
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Davide » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Davidetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Darby » (#53,888), « Delattre » (#53,890), « Demba » (#53,892). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Davide » est au #53,889. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Davide is uncommon French at frequency #53,889 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin, correspondant à David.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Davide, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Davide, spelled D-A-V-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin, correspondant à David.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Davide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Davide Faranda est chercheur CNRS en sciences du climat au laboratoire LSCE de l’Université Paris-Saclay et chef d’équipe du groupe ESTIMR.
  2. Spectacle original de : Leana Durney, Davide Autieri, Robert Sandoz et Blaise Ubaldini.

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 "Davide"?
"Davide" is spelled D-A-V-I-D-E.
What does "Davide" mean?
As a proper noun, "Davide" means: Prénom masculin, correspondant à David.
What language does "Davide" come from?
"Davide" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Davide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list