Dumas
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,952
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Dumas is aFrenchname. It means: Nom de famille, connu notamment via Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) et fils (1824-1895), écrivains français. Pronounced \dy.ma\. Often confused with dus and durs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dumas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \dy.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Dumas is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dy.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,952 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Dumas, with forms such as "ddumas", "dmuas", and "duams". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dus", "durs", "duos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Dumas, spelled D-U-M-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, connu notamment via Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) et fils (1824-1895), écrivains français.
- 2Un mot d’Alexandre Dumas pour m’apprendre la mort de son père. Il était le génie de la vie, il n’a pas senti la mort. Il n’a peut-être pas su que l’ennemi était à sa porte et assistait à sa dernière heure, car on dit que Dieppe est occupé. — (George Sand, Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre, 1871, page 199)
- 3J’assistai seulement aux représentations que le dimanche et le mardi matin Georges Dumas nous donnait à Sainte-Anne, avec le concours de quelques fous. — (Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée, 1958, réédition Le Livre de Poche, page 369)
- 4On pourrait presque croire qu’Alexandre Dumas a écrit Les Trois Mousquetaires pour Vincent Cassel (Athos), François Civil (D’Artagnan), Pio Marmaï (Porthos) et Romain Duris (Aramis). — (journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 5 avril 2023, page 11)
- 5Co-organisé avec Samuel Dumas, fondateur d’Acadee, un organisme de formation à la blockchain. — (journal 20 minutes, édition Paris-IDF, 7 juin 2023, page 12)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddumas,dmuas,duams,dumass,dummas,dumsa,udmas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Dumas
Misspelling Variants of "Dumas"
Frequency rank: #11,952 in French
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