Deaux
The verdict
“Deaux” is uncommon French (frequency #91,593 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,593
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deaux · Deaux · French
Deaux · rank #91,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,593
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deere
Nearest frequency peer: deere (+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 « Deaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dagmar
Dagmar
8,412 corpus weight
- Damasio
Damasio
8,411 corpus weight
- Deaux
Deaux
8,408 corpus weight
- deere
deere
8,407 corpus weight
- Dehli
Dehli
8,406 corpus weight
- Delli
Delli
8,404 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Deaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Deaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Deaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Deaux is uncommon French at frequency #91,593 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Deaux, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Deaux, spelled D-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Deaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lucas Deaux, l’ex-chouchou de la Beaujoire fait sa deuxième saison à Dijon, en Ligue 2.
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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