Dudelange
\dyd.lɑ̃ʒ\
The verdict
“Dudelange” is uncommon French (frequency #69,003 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,003
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du canton d’Esch-sur-Alzette au Luxembourg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dudelange · Dudelange · French
Dudelange · rank #69,003 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,003
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duluth
Nearest frequency peer: Duluth (+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 « Dudelange »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dro
dro
31,001 corpus weight
- droguerie
droguerie
31,000 corpus weight
- Dudelange
Dudelange
30,998 corpus weight
- Duluth
Duluth
30,997 corpus weight
- duomo
duomo
30,996 corpus weight
- Durango
Durango
30,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dudelange » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dudelange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dyd.lɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dudelange » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dudelange is uncommon French at frequency #69,003 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dyd.lɑ̃ʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Dudelange doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Dudelange, spelled D-U-D-E-L-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Ville du canton d’Esch-sur-Alzette au Luxembourg.
- 2Section et siège de la commune de Dudelange.
This word in other languages
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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