ducat
\dy.ka\
The verdict
“ducat” is uncommon French (frequency #92,643 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,643
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne pièce de monnaie d’or ou d’argent, émise par un duché, dont la valeur variait suivant les différents pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ducat · ducat · French
ducat · rank #92,643 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,643
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duez
Nearest frequency peer: duez (+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 « ducat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dothraki
dothraki
7,363 corpus weight
- drums
drums
7,360 corpus weight
- ducat
ducat
7,358 corpus weight
- duez
duez
7,357 corpus weight
- Dumitru
Dumitru
7,356 corpus weight
- duro
duro
7,354 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ducat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ducat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.ka\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ducat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ducat is uncommon French at frequency #92,643 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancienne pièce de monnaie d’or ou d’argent, émise par un duché, dont la valeur variait suivant les différents pays.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ducat, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ducat, spelled D-U-C-A-T.
Definition
- 1Ancienne pièce de monnaie d’or ou d’argent, émise par un duché, dont la valeur variait suivant les différents pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ducat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je signe : il me donne trois ducats.
On entendait, de tous côtés, les carillons des vendeurs de sorbet, de pignolats et de lait caillé, les timbales des astrologues en plein vent, les chansons des guzlares aveugles, dont il y avait quantité, Mme Maria-Pia leur faisant à tous la pension d'un demi-ducat chaque mois, depuis la naissance de Tatiana.
This word in other languages
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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