Ducos
\dy.kɔs\
The verdict
“Ducos” is uncommon French (frequency #55,210 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,210
- 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 Martinique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ducos · Ducos · French
Ducos · rank #55,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,210
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dramaturges
Nearest frequency peer: dramaturges (-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 « Ducos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dover
Dover
44,794 corpus weight
- downs
downs
44,793 corpus weight
- dramaturges
dramaturges
44,792 corpus weight
- Ducos
Ducos
44,791 corpus weight
- Dussault
Dussault
44,789 corpus weight
- Duvalier
Duvalier
44,788 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ducos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ducos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.kɔs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ducos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ducos is uncommon French at frequency #55,210 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.kɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Martinique.".
Ducos has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ducos, spelled D-U-C-O-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Martinique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ducos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cependant, nous pensons que la situation évolue favorablement pour cette ville qui bénéficie de la déconcentration des activités foyalaises, comme le font déjà les communes du centre et sud Caraïbe (Ducos, Rivière-Salée, Trois-Ilets, Diamant.)
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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