Desportes
\dɛ.pɔʁt\
The verdict
“Desportes” is uncommon French (frequency #63,668 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,668
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-desportes · Desportes · French
Desportes · rank #63,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,668
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deen
Nearest frequency peer: deen (-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 « Desportes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Declan
Declan
36,336 corpus weight
- deen
deen
36,334 corpus weight
- Desportes
Desportes
36,333 corpus weight
- destiner
destiner
36,332 corpus weight
- devantures
devantures
36,331 corpus weight
- devinerez
devinerez
36,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Desportes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Desportes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɛ.pɔʁt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Desportes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Desportes is uncommon French at frequency #63,668 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dɛ.pɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Desportes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Desportes, spelled D-E-S-P-O-R-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Desportes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est un signe de préparation défensive ferme pour l’arrivée de l'hiver, il est normal qu’une armée qui se prépare à repousser un assaut renforce ses positions », souligne le général Vincent Desportes, professeur de stratégie à Sciences po et HEC.
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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