duc
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,118
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
duc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Titre qui était le plus élevé parmi l’ancienne noblesse de France et de quelques autres États. Pronounced \dyk\. It ranks #2,118 in French word frequency. Often confused with DV and dy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dyk\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for duc is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dyk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,118 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for duc in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "DV", "dy", "dz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is duc, spelled D-U-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Titre qui était le plus élevé parmi l’ancienne noblesse de France et de quelques autres États.
- 2Titre de quelques princes souverains.
- 3Voiture hippomobile de luxe ressemblant, mais en plus grand à une victoria, avec seulement deux places. À l'avant et à l'arrière des places assises il y a un banc pour la domesticité.
- 4Nom donné à plusieurs espèces d’oiseaux nocturnes de la famille des strigidés.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,118 in French
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