Dumézil
The verdict
“Dumézil” is uncommon French (frequency #81,965 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,965
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dumezil · Dumézil · French
Dumézil · rank #81,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,965
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Draxler
Nearest frequency peer: Draxler (-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 « Dumézil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Domont
Domont
18,040 corpus weight
- donde
donde
18,039 corpus weight
- Draxler
Draxler
18,037 corpus weight
- Dumézil
Dumézil
18,036 corpus weight
- Durfort
Durfort
18,035 corpus weight
- duveteux
duveteux
18,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dumézil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dumézil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dumézil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dumézil is uncommon French at frequency #81,965 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dumézil, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Dumézil, spelled D-U-M-É-Z-I-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dumézil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Georges Dumézil.
Clovis a été perçu comme un barbare qui a réussi, et ce, à partir du XIXᵉ siècle, raconte Bruno Dumézil, l’un des commissaires de l’événement.
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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