Deshaies
\de.ɛ\
The verdict
“Deshaies” is uncommon French (frequency #81,050 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,050
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Guadeloupe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deshaies · Deshaies · French
Deshaies · rank #81,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,050
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH descendirent
Nearest frequency peer: descendirent (-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 « Deshaies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delafosse
Delafosse
18,956 corpus weight
- Delaune
Delaune
18,954 corpus weight
- descendirent
descendirent
18,952 corpus weight
- Deshaies
Deshaies
18,951 corpus weight
- diablotin
diablotin
18,949 corpus weight
- dialoguent
dialoguent
18,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Deshaies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Deshaies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Deshaies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Deshaies is uncommon French at frequency #81,050 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.ɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Guadeloupe.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Deshaies in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Deshaies, spelled D-E-S-H-A-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Guadeloupe.
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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