Déry
The verdict
“Déry” is uncommon French (frequency #81,101 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,101
- 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-dery · Déry · French
Déry · rank #81,101 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,101
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déroulerait
Nearest frequency peer: déroulerait (-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 « Déry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dépresseur
dépresseur
18,903 corpus weight
- dépuceler
dépuceler
18,902 corpus weight
- déroulerait
déroulerait
18,901 corpus weight
- Déry
Déry
18,900 corpus weight
- déshériter
déshériter
18,899 corpus weight
- désintéress…
désintéressent
18,898 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Déry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Déry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Déry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Déry is uncommon French at frequency #81,101 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Déry has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Déry, spelled D-É-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Déry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Déry ajoute que les scientifiques tentent de déranger l'espèce le moins possible lors de leur passage et en profitent pour récolter des données afin de mieux comprendre son comportement.
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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