Duchenne
\dy.ʃɛn\
The verdict
“Duchenne” is uncommon French (frequency #87,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,548
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duchenne · Duchenne · French
Duchenne · rank #87,548 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,548
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Ducret
Nearest frequency peer: Ducret (+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 « Duchenne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dorcas
dorcas
12,459 corpus weight
- dotcom
dotcom
12,457 corpus weight
- Duchenne
Duchenne
12,453 corpus weight
- Ducret
Ducret
12,452 corpus weight
- Duperré
Duperré
12,449 corpus weight
- durcissant
durcissant
12,448 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duchenne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duchenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.ʃɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duchenne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duchenne is uncommon French at frequency #87,548 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.ʃɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Duchenne in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Duchenne, spelled D-U-C-H-E-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Duchenne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Atteint de la myopathie de Duchenne, Benjamin Joly est devenu le premier diplômé de l’école des Têtes en l’air, et désormais télépilote de drones professionnel.
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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