desk
\dɛsk\
The verdict
“desk” is uncommon French (frequency #50,161 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,161
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bureau de presse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desk · desk · French
desk · rank #50,161 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,161
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Denain
Nearest frequency peer: Denain (-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 « desk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- demandiez
demandiez
49,842 corpus weight
- Denain
Denain
49,841 corpus weight
- desk
desk
49,840 corpus weight
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
- Didon
Didon
49,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « desk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛsk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « desk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
desk is uncommon French at frequency #50,161 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for desk in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is desk, spelled D-E-S-K.
Definition
- 1Bureau de presse.
- 2Comptoir d’enregistrement des compagnies aériennes.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).