Dumais
\dy.mɛ\
The verdict
“Dumais” is uncommon French (frequency #89,623 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,623
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dumais · Dumais · French
Dumais · rank #89,623 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,623
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dullin
Nearest frequency peer: Dullin (-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 « Dumais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- duk
duk
10,380 corpus weight
- Dullin
Dullin
10,379 corpus weight
- Dumais
Dumais
10,378 corpus weight
- Dupree
Dupree
10,377 corpus weight
- duron
duron
10,376 corpus weight
- débarrassait
débarrassait
10,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dumais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dumais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.mɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dumais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dumais is uncommon French at frequency #89,623 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.mɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Dumais in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Dumais, spelled D-U-M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille attesté notamment au Québec et en France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dumais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mme Boissonnault nous rappelle aussi le souvenir de son père, M. Jules Dumais, un des notaires les plus appréciés de son temps.
Madame Dumais apportait la carafe de vin.
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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