Delafosse
The verdict
“Delafosse” is uncommon French (frequency #81,045 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,045
- 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-delafosse · Delafosse · French
Delafosse · rank #81,045 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,045
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dejan
Nearest frequency peer: dejan (-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 « Delafosse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Decazeville
Decazeville
18,960 corpus weight
- dejan
dejan
18,957 corpus weight
- Delafosse
Delafosse
18,956 corpus weight
- Delaune
Delaune
18,954 corpus weight
- descendirent
descendirent
18,952 corpus weight
- Deshaies
Deshaies
18,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Delafosse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delafosse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,045 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Delafosse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Delafosse is uncommon French at frequency #81,045 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Delafosse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Delafosse, spelled D-E-L-A-F-O-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delafosse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Montpellier : Saurel - Delafosse, pourquoi ils "s’hainent".
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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