Duchamp
The verdict
“Duchamp” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,356
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duchamp · Duchamp · French
Duchamp · rank #36,356 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH domotique
Nearest frequency peer: domotique (-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 « Duchamp »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diarrhées
diarrhées
63,649 corpus weight
- Djamel
Djamel
63,647 corpus weight
- domotique
domotique
63,646 corpus weight
- Duchamp
Duchamp
63,645 corpus weight
- déconcertan…
déconcertante
63,643 corpus weight
- décrivez
décrivez
63,642 corpus weight
What this shows « Duchamp » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duchamp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Duchamp »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Duchamp, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #36,356 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Duchamp, with forms such as "dcuhamp", "dduchamp", and "ducahmp". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Durham", "Dunham", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Duchamp, spelled D-U-C-H-A-M-P.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Duchamp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marcel Duchamp.
L’Île des souvenirs, de Chrystel Duchamp (éd. L’Archipel).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcuhamp
- dduchamp
- ducahmp
- ducchamp
- duchammp
- duchampp
- duchapm
- duchhamp
- duchmap
- duhcamp
- udchamp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Duchamp - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Duchamp", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).