dudu
\ˈdʊ.dʊ\
The verdict
“dudu” is uncommon French (frequency #62,931 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,931
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Singulatif masculin de dud.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dudu · dudu · French
dudu · rank #62,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,931
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drainant
Nearest frequency peer: drainant (-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 « dudu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dosettes
dosettes
37,072 corpus weight
- drainant
drainant
37,071 corpus weight
- dudu
dudu
37,070 corpus weight
- Duhaime
Duhaime
37,069 corpus weight
- Dupontel
Dupontel
37,068 corpus weight
- déambulation
déambulation
37,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dudu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dudu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdʊ.dʊ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dudu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dudu is uncommon French at frequency #62,931 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdʊ.dʊ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Singulatif masculin de dud.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dudu, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dudu, spelled D-U-D-U.
Definition
- 1Singulatif masculin de dud.
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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