doyens
\dwa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“doyens” is uncommon French (frequency #50,779 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,779
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de doyen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doyens · doyens · French
doyens · rank #50,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doublet
Nearest frequency peer: doublet (-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 « doyens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dolmens
dolmens
49,225 corpus weight
- domain
domain
49,224 corpus weight
- doublet
doublet
49,223 corpus weight
- doyens
doyens
49,222 corpus weight
- dynastique
dynastique
49,221 corpus weight
- débouler
débouler
49,220 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doyens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doyens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dwa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doyens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doyens is uncommon French at frequency #50,779 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dwa.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de doyen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for doyens in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 doyens, spelled D-O-Y-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de doyen.
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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