Deschênes
\de.ʃɛn\
The verdict
“Deschênes” is uncommon French (frequency #65,853 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,853
- 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-deschenes · Deschênes · French
Deschênes · rank #65,853 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,853
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dentées
Nearest frequency peer: dentées (-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 « Deschênes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- demarco
demarco
34,151 corpus weight
- dentisterie
dentisterie
34,150 corpus weight
- dentées
dentées
34,149 corpus weight
- Deschênes
Deschênes
34,148 corpus weight
- dessèche
dessèche
34,147 corpus weight
- devops
devops
34,145 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Deschênes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Deschênes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ʃɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Deschênes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Deschênes is uncommon French at frequency #65,853 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.ʃɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Deschênes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Deschênes, spelled D-E-S-C-H-Ê-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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