dukan
\ˈdu.kan\
The verdict
“dukan” is uncommon French (frequency #88,544 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,544
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusatif singulier de duka.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dukan · dukan · French
dukan · rank #88,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,544
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duclair
Nearest frequency peer: Duclair (-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 « dukan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- domineront
domineront
11,461 corpus weight
- doro
doro
11,460 corpus weight
- dubbing
dubbing
11,459 corpus weight
- Duclair
Duclair
11,458 corpus weight
- dukan
dukan
11,457 corpus weight
- débarrassera
débarrassera
11,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dukan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dukan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈdu.kan\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dukan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dukan is uncommon French at frequency #88,544 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈdu.kan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accusatif singulier de duka.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dukan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dukan, spelled D-U-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1Accusatif singulier de duka.
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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