Djeddah
\dʒɛ.da\
The verdict
“Djeddah” is uncommon French (frequency #72,246 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,246
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième ville d'Arabie saoudite et grand centre de commerce, située sur les bords de la mer Rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-djeddah · Djeddah · French
Djeddah · rank #72,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,246
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disqualifiés
Nearest frequency peer: disqualifiés (-2 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 « Djeddah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diatonique
diatonique
27,760 corpus weight
- disqualifiés
disqualifiés
27,757 corpus weight
- Djeddah
Djeddah
27,755 corpus weight
- DNB
DNB
27,753 corpus weight
- doigter
doigter
27,752 corpus weight
- domiciliaire
domiciliaire
27,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Djeddah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Djeddah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dʒɛ.da\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Djeddah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Djeddah is uncommon French at frequency #72,246 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dʒɛ.da\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième ville d'Arabie saoudite et grand centre de commerce, située sur les bords de la mer Rouge.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Djeddah, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Djeddah, spelled D-J-E-D-D-A-H.
Definition
- 1Deuxième ville d'Arabie saoudite et grand centre de commerce, située sur les bords de la mer Rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Djeddah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Karim Benzema s’est engagé, mardi, pour trois saisons avec Al-Ittihad, un club de la ville de Djeddah, en Arabie saoudite, où il devrait toucher 100 millions d’euros par an.
On peut désormais obtenir un e-visa en moins de 24h, et s’y rendre facilement grâce aux vols directs Paris-Riyad, Paris-Djeddah ou Marseille-Djeddah.
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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