Dunkerquois
\dœ̃.kɛʁ.kwa\
The verdict
“Dunkerquois” is uncommon French (frequency #65,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,876
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitant ou personne originaire de Dunkerque, commune française située dans le département du Nord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dunkerquois · Dunkerquois · French
Dunkerquois · rank #65,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,876
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duchemin
Nearest frequency peer: Duchemin (-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 « Dunkerquois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- draguent
draguent
34,128 corpus weight
- drains
drains
34,127 corpus weight
- Duchemin
Duchemin
34,126 corpus weight
- Dunkerquois
Dunkerquois
34,125 corpus weight
- débarquèrent
débarquèrent
34,124 corpus weight
- déblais
déblais
34,123 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dunkerquois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunkerquois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dœ̃.kɛʁ.kwa\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dunkerquois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dunkerquois is uncommon French at frequency #65,876 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dœ̃.kɛʁ.kwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Dunkerquois in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Dunkerquois, spelled D-U-N-K-E-R-Q-U-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Habitant ou personne originaire de Dunkerque, commune française située dans le département du Nord.
- 2Agglomération de la ville de Dunkerque.
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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