Doyon
The verdict
“Doyon” is uncommon French (frequency #75,611 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,611
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doyon · Doyon · French
Doyon · rank #75,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,611
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douillette
Nearest frequency peer: douillette (-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 « Doyon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dori
dori
24,392 corpus weight
- douillette
douillette
24,391 corpus weight
- Doyon
Doyon
24,390 corpus weight
- drachmes
drachmes
24,389 corpus weight
- dragan
dragan
24,388 corpus weight
- dragonne
dragonne
24,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Doyon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Doyon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Doyon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Doyon is uncommon French at frequency #75,611 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Doyon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Doyon, spelled D-O-Y-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Doyon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon Étienne Doyon, porte-parole au service de police de la Ville de Québec (SPVQ), l’agression est survenue entre un homme et une femme, vraisemblablement à l’intérieur d’un logement.
Dans cette guerre tarifaire contre notre voisin américain, tous les supermarchés gagneront en transparence pour attirer les clients, croit Maurice Doyon, professeur d’économie agroalimentaire à l’Université Laval.
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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