Denain
\də.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“Denain” is uncommon French (frequency #50,160 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,160
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-denain · Denain · French
Denain · rank #50,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,160
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demandiez
Nearest frequency peer: demandiez (-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 « Denain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- darkness
darkness
49,845 corpus weight
- demandiez
demandiez
49,842 corpus weight
- Denain
Denain
49,841 corpus weight
- desk
desk
49,840 corpus weight
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Denain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Denain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \də.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Denain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Denain is uncommon French at frequency #50,160 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \də.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Denain in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Denain, spelled D-E-N-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Nord.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Nord.
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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