DeLorean
The verdict
“DeLorean” is uncommon French (frequency #65,071 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,071
- 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-delorean · DeLorean · French
DeLorean · rank #65,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,071
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DELF
Nearest frequency peer: DELF (-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 « DeLorean »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dekker
Dekker
34,932 corpus weight
- DELF
DELF
34,931 corpus weight
- DeLorean
DeLorean
34,930 corpus weight
- demanderas
demanderas
34,929 corpus weight
- derbys
derbys
34,928 corpus weight
- Desfontaines
Desfontaines
34,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DeLorean » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DeLorean |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DeLorean » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DeLorean is uncommon French at frequency #65,071 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
DeLorean has no tracked misspelling variants, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is DeLorean, spelled D-E-L-O-R-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DeLorean appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est en octobre 1975 que nait la DMC, pour DeLorean Motor Company.
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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