dui
The verdict
“dui” is uncommon French (frequency #73,092 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,092
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cas sujet de deus, variante de doi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #73,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dui” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dui is uncommon French at frequency #73,092 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cas sujet de deus, variante de doi.".
dui has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dui, spelled D-U-I.
Definition
- 1Cas sujet de deus, variante de doi.
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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Using “dui”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-U-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.