Dehaene
\de.an\
The verdict
“Dehaene” is uncommon French (frequency #83,768 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,768
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille d’origine néerlandaise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dehaene · Dehaene · French
Dehaene · rank #83,768 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,768
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dentelée
Nearest frequency peer: dentelée (+3 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 « Dehaene »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dandin
dandin
16,238 corpus weight
- danza
danza
16,237 corpus weight
- Dehaene
Dehaene
16,233 corpus weight
- dentelée
dentelée
16,230 corpus weight
- Desmarets
Desmarets
16,228 corpus weight
- dessiccation
dessiccation
16,227 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dehaene » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dehaene |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.an\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dehaene » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dehaene is uncommon French at frequency #83,768 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.an\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille d’origine néerlandaise.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dehaene, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Dehaene, spelled D-E-H-A-E-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille d’origine néerlandaise.
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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