Duluth
\dy.lyt\
The verdict
“Duluth” is uncommon French (frequency #69,004 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,004
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et siège du comté de Saint Louis, dans le Minnesota, dans le nord des États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duluth · Duluth · French
Duluth · rank #69,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,004
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dudelange
Nearest frequency peer: Dudelange (-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 « Duluth »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- durif
durif
30,994 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duluth » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duluth |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.lyt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duluth » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duluth is uncommon French at frequency #69,004 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.lyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Duluth has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Duluth, spelled D-U-L-U-T-H.
Definition
- 1Ville et siège du comté de Saint Louis, dans le Minnesota, dans le nord des États-Unis.
- 2Ville située dans le comté de Gwinnett dans l’État de Géorgie aux États-Unis.
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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