dudes
\duːdz\
The verdict
“dudes” is uncommon French (frequency #81,076 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,076
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dudes · dudes · French
dudes · rank #81,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,076
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duca
Nearest frequency peer: duca (-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 « dudes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dopant
dopant
18,930 corpus weight
- douville
douville
18,929 corpus weight
- drom
drom
18,927 corpus weight
- duca
duca
18,926 corpus weight
- dudes
dudes
18,925 corpus weight
- débourse
débourse
18,920 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dudes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dudes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \duːdz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dudes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dudes is uncommon French at frequency #81,076 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \duːdz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dude.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dudes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dudes, spelled D-U-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dude.
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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