Descamps
\de.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“Descamps” is uncommon French (frequency #57,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,205
- 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-descamps · Descamps · French
Descamps · rank #57,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,205
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dawa
Nearest frequency peer: dawa (-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 « Descamps »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dara
dara
42,799 corpus weight
- dawa
dawa
42,797 corpus weight
- Descamps
Descamps
42,796 corpus weight
- descendantes
descendantes
42,795 corpus weight
- dessines
dessines
42,794 corpus weight
- devices
devices
42,793 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Descamps » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Descamps |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Descamps » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Descamps is uncommon French at frequency #57,205 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Descamps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Descamps, spelled D-E-S-C-A-M-P-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Descamps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benjamin Müller, de « La Maison des maternelles », ainsi que Maud Descamps et le médecin généraliste Vincent Valinducq, qui apparaissaient jusque-là dans « Télématin », rejoignent l’équipe de Bruce Toussaint.
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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