Duclair
The verdict
“Duclair” is uncommon French (frequency #88,543 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,543
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duclair · Duclair · French
Duclair · rank #88,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,543
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dubbing
Nearest frequency peer: dubbing (-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 « Duclair »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- domineront
domineront
11,461 corpus weight
- doro
doro
11,460 corpus weight
- dubbing
dubbing
11,459 corpus weight
- Duclair
Duclair
11,458 corpus weight
- dukan
dukan
11,457 corpus weight
- débarrassera
débarrassera
11,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duclair » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duclair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duclair » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duclair is uncommon French at frequency #88,543 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.".
Duclair doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Duclair, spelled D-U-C-L-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Seine-Maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Duclair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il alla droit à Duclair où il déjeuna. Au sortir de ce bourg, il suivit la Seine et ne la quitta pour ainsi dire plus.
Derrière eux, en bas du potager, la route blanche s’allongeait jusqu’au gros bourg de Duclair, et, sur cette route, il y avait des charrettes de paysans qui s’en venaient ou qui s’éloignaient.
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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