Dounia
\du.nja\
The verdict
“Dounia” is uncommon French (frequency #53,906 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - prénom féminin arabe
Corpus desk
Index FR-dounia · Dounia · French
Dounia · rank #53,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,906
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doubt
Nearest frequency peer: doubt (-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 « Dounia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dorures
dorures
46,098 corpus weight
- doublures
doublures
46,097 corpus weight
- doubt
doubt
46,096 corpus weight
- Dounia
Dounia
46,095 corpus weight
- Dreal
Dreal
46,094 corpus weight
- dubstep
dubstep
46,093 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dounia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dounia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \du.nja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dounia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dounia is uncommon French at frequency #53,906 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \du.nja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "prénom féminin arabe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dounia, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dounia, spelled D-O-U-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1prénom féminin arabe
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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