Delannoy
\də.la.nwa\
The verdict
“Delannoy” is uncommon French (frequency #61,443 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,443
- 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-delannoy · Delannoy · French
Delannoy · rank #61,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,443
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH destructive
Nearest frequency peer: destructive (+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 « Delannoy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cyrillique
cyrillique
38,562 corpus weight
- decks
decks
38,560 corpus weight
- Delannoy
Delannoy
38,558 corpus weight
- destructive
destructive
38,557 corpus weight
- différés
différés
38,556 corpus weight
- discover
discover
38,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Delannoy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delannoy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \də.la.nwa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Delannoy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Delannoy is uncommon French at frequency #61,443 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \də.la.nwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Delannoy in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Delannoy, spelled D-E-L-A-N-N-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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