Desdémone
\dɛs.de.mɔn\
The verdict
“Desdémone” is uncommon French (frequency #92,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Satellite naturel de la planète Uranus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desdemone · Desdémone · French
Desdémone · rank #92,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,618
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deputy
Nearest frequency peer: deputy (-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 « Desdémone »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- DHA
DHA
7,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Desdémone » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Desdémone |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɛs.de.mɔn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Desdémone » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Desdémone is uncommon French at frequency #92,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dɛs.de.mɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Desdémone, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Desdémone, spelled D-E-S-D-É-M-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1Satellite naturel de la planète Uranus.
- 2(666) Desdémone : Planète mineure.
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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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