duce
\du.tʃe\
The verdict
“duce” is uncommon French (frequency #52,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,625
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre porté par Mussolini.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duce · duce · French
duce · rank #52,625 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,625
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dubrovnik
Nearest frequency peer: Dubrovnik (-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 « duce »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drill
drill
47,379 corpus weight
- Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
47,377 corpus weight
- duce
duce
47,376 corpus weight
- Ducharme
Ducharme
47,375 corpus weight
- Duprat
Duprat
47,374 corpus weight
- durch
durch
47,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duce » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \du.tʃe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duce is uncommon French at frequency #52,625 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \du.tʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for duce in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is duce, spelled D-U-C-E.
Definition
- 1Titre porté par Mussolini.
- 2Titre prêté à quelqu’un et faisant référence à la personnalité de Benito Mussolini.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, bien sûr, contrairement à des écrits pédagogiques qui éduquent chez l’enfant, le libre arbitre, l’autonomie et l’engagement individuel, dans les textes destinés aux enfants fascistes tout converge vers la sacralisation du duce et de ses objectifs de conquêtes bellicistes.
Pour les autres, une défaite serait la fin de la démocratie, le début du fascisme aux États-Unis par le Duce Trump.
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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