Desaix
The verdict
“Desaix” is uncommon French (frequency #67,434 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,434
- 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-desaix · Desaix · French
Desaix · rank #67,434 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,434
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dessalement
Nearest frequency peer: dessalement (+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 « Desaix »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Denmark
Denmark
32,571 corpus weight
- dentée
dentée
32,570 corpus weight
- Desaix
Desaix
32,567 corpus weight
- dessalement
dessalement
32,566 corpus weight
- digérée
digérée
32,562 corpus weight
- dilatée
dilatée
32,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Desaix » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Desaix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Desaix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Desaix is uncommon French at frequency #67,434 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Desaix, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Desaix, spelled D-E-S-A-I-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Desaix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix.
Louis Jean Desaix.
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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