dunks
\dœŋk\
The verdict
“dunks” is uncommon French (frequency #91,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,617
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dunk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dunks · dunks · French
dunks · rank #91,617 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,617
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH drainée
Nearest frequency peer: drainée (-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 « dunks »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dormes
dormes
8,386 corpus weight
- drainée
drainée
8,385 corpus weight
- dunks
dunks
8,384 corpus weight
- déambulatio…
déambulations
8,383 corpus weight
- débarqueront
débarqueront
8,382 corpus weight
- débauches
débauches
8,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dunks » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dunks |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dœŋk\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dunks » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dunks is uncommon French at frequency #91,617 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dœŋk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dunk.".
dunks doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dunks, spelled D-U-N-K-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dunk.
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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