Duceppe

name

The verdict

“Duceppe” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,225. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,225
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-duceppe · Duceppe · French

Duceppe · rank #33,225 · 8 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #33,225
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH druide

Nearest frequency peer: druide (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Duceppe »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Duceppe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Duceppe vs Dieppe
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Duceppe
PropertyValue
HeadwordDuceppe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#33,225
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Duceppe »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Duceppese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « druide » (#33,224), « Duclos » (#33,226), « dreams » (#33,223). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Duceppe » est au #33,225. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Duceppe, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,225 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Duceppe, with forms such as "dcueppe", "dduceppe", and "ducceppe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dieppe", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Duceppe, spelled D-U-C-E-P-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Duceppe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Jean Duceppe, acteur québécois.
  2. Gilles Duceppe, politicien québécois sur la scène fédérale canadienne.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dcueppe
  • dduceppe
  • ducceppe
  • ducepe
  • ducepep
  • ducpepe
  • duecppe
  • udceppe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Duceppe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

dcueppe2dduceppe1ducceppe1ducepe1ducepep2ducpepe2duecppe2udceppe2
Edit distance from "Duceppe"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Duceppe"?
"Duceppe" is spelled D-U-C-E-P-P-E.
What does "Duceppe" mean?
As a proper noun, "Duceppe" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Duceppe"?
"Duceppe" is commonly confused with "Dieppe". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Duceppe" come from?
"Duceppe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Duceppe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list