Desfontaines
The verdict
“Desfontaines” is uncommon French (frequency #65,074 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,074
- 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-desfontaines · Desfontaines · French
Desfontaines · rank #65,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,074
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH derbys
Nearest frequency peer: derbys (-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 « Desfontaines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DELF
DELF
34,931 corpus weight
- DeLorean
DeLorean
34,930 corpus weight
- demanderas
demanderas
34,929 corpus weight
- derbys
derbys
34,928 corpus weight
- Desfontaines
Desfontaines
34,927 corpus weight
- dici
dici
34,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Desfontaines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Desfontaines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #65,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Desfontaines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Desfontaines is uncommon French at frequency #65,074 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Desfontaines has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Desfontaines, spelled D-E-S-F-O-N-T-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Desfontaines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Un pas dans le bon sens », glisse Valentin Desfontaines, responsable mobilités durables de Réseau action climat France, fédération d’ONG environnementales.
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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