deputy
\ˈdɛp.jə.ti\
The verdict
“deputy” is uncommon French (frequency #92,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,617
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Député.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deputy · deputy · French
deputy · rank #92,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,617
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desdémone
Nearest frequency peer: Desdémone (+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 « deputy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dakhla
Dakhla
7,388 corpus weight
- DCL
DCL
7,387 corpus weight
- debrief
debrief
7,386 corpus weight
- deputy
deputy
7,384 corpus weight
- Desdémone
Desdémone
7,383 corpus weight
- devotion
devotion
7,382 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deputy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deputy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdɛp.jə.ti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deputy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deputy is uncommon French at frequency #92,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdɛp.jə.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deputy, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is deputy, spelled D-E-P-U-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Député.
- 2Adjoint (fonction professionnelle).
- 3Adjoint (fonction professionnelle).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deputy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A deputy who responded to the incident was shot and taken to a hospital while no other information on the other victims was immediately known.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).