DFS
\de.ɛf.ɛs\
The verdict
“DFS” is uncommon French (frequency #85,635 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,635
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rapport final d’une fouille d’archéologie préventive.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dfs · DFS · French
DFS · rank #85,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,635
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deutsches
Nearest frequency peer: deutsches (-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 « DFS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dessaisi
dessaisi
14,369 corpus weight
- dessinera
dessinera
14,368 corpus weight
- deutsches
deutsches
14,367 corpus weight
- DFS
DFS
14,366 corpus weight
- diapositive
diapositive
14,365 corpus weight
- difformité
difformité
14,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DFS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DFS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.ɛf.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DFS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DFS is uncommon French at frequency #85,635 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.ɛf.ɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rapport final d’une fouille d’archéologie préventive.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for DFS, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is DFS, spelled D-F-S.
Definition
- 1Rapport final d’une fouille d’archéologie préventive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DFS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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