Didon
\di.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“Didon” is uncommon French (frequency #50,164 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,164
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fondatrice légendaire et première reine de Carthage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-didon · Didon · French
Didon · rank #50,164 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,164
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dictons
Nearest frequency peer: dictons (-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 « Didon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- desk
desk
49,840 corpus weight
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
- Didon
Didon
49,837 corpus weight
- dien
dien
49,836 corpus weight
- diligences
diligences
49,835 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Didon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Didon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \di.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Didon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Didon is uncommon French at frequency #50,164 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \di.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fondatrice légendaire et première reine de Carthage.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Didon in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Didon, spelled D-I-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fondatrice légendaire et première reine de Carthage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Didon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Didon et Énée.
Je connus Didon et je sentis courir des flammes dans mes veines. L’image de celle qui, déchirée d’une blessure immortelle, errait dans la forêt des myrtes, se penchait la nuit sur mon lit agité.
This word in other languages
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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