Defferre
The verdict
“Defferre” is uncommon French (frequency #71,420 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,420
- 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-defferre · Defferre · French
Defferre · rank #71,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,420
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dels
Nearest frequency peer: dels (+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 « Defferre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Cèze
Cèze
28,587 corpus weight
- céréalières
céréalières
28,586 corpus weight
- côtoyaient
côtoyaient
28,585 corpus weight
- dall
dall
28,584 corpus weight
- Defferre
Defferre
28,581 corpus weight
- dels
dels
28,580 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Defferre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Defferre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Defferre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Defferre is uncommon French at frequency #71,420 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 Defferre, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Defferre, spelled D-E-F-F-E-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Defferre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1983, Gaston Defferre, maire socialiste de Marseille et artisan de la loi PLM, a remporté l’élection dans la cité phocéenne avec un total de voix moins important que son adversaire Jean-Claude Gaudin.
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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