downs
\daʊnz\
The verdict
“downs” is uncommon French (frequency #55,208 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,208
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de down.
Corpus desk
Index FR-downs · downs · French
downs · rank #55,208 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,208
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dover
Nearest frequency peer: Dover (-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 « downs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dominateurs
dominateurs
44,796 corpus weight
- doutons
doutons
44,795 corpus weight
- Dover
Dover
44,794 corpus weight
- downs
downs
44,793 corpus weight
- dramaturges
dramaturges
44,792 corpus weight
- Ducos
Ducos
44,791 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « downs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | downs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daʊnz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,208 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « downs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
downs is uncommon French at frequency #55,208 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \daʊnz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de down.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for downs, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is downs, spelled D-O-W-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de down.
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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