Dumesnil
\dy.me.nil\
The verdict
“Dumesnil” is uncommon French (frequency #70,552 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,552
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dumesnil · Dumesnil · French
Dumesnil · rank #70,552 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dubitative
Nearest frequency peer: dubitative (-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 « Dumesnil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- driven
driven
29,452 corpus weight
- druze
druze
29,451 corpus weight
- dubitative
dubitative
29,450 corpus weight
- Dumesnil
Dumesnil
29,449 corpus weight
- dump
dump
29,448 corpus weight
- Duris
Duris
29,447 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dumesnil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dumesnil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.me.nil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dumesnil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dumesnil is uncommon French at frequency #70,552 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.me.nil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Dumesnil has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Dumesnil, spelled D-U-M-E-S-N-I-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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