Delpy
The verdict
“Delpy” is uncommon French (frequency #76,486 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,486
- 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-delpy · Delpy · French
Delpy · rank #76,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,486
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendront
Nearest frequency peer: descendront (+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 « Delpy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dalo
Dalo
23,520 corpus weight
- Daumas
Daumas
23,518 corpus weight
- Delpy
Delpy
23,515 corpus weight
- descendront
descendront
23,514 corpus weight
- desservira
desservira
23,513 corpus weight
- diffamations
diffamations
23,511 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Delpy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delpy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Delpy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Delpy is uncommon French at frequency #76,486 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Delpy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Delpy, spelled D-E-L-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delpy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, l’après-midi du jeudi 25 mai, les écoliers de Lanteuil, accompagnés de leurs deux maîtresses, ont joué les apprentis jardiniers, en profitant des conseils prodigués par André Delpy, connaisseur en la matière.
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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