Dunning
The verdict
“Dunning” is uncommon French (frequency #69,770 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,770
- 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-dunning · Dunning · French
Dunning · rank #69,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,770
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duroc
Nearest frequency peer: duroc (+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 « Dunning »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Drupal
Drupal
30,235 corpus weight
- dua
dua
30,234 corpus weight
- dubus
dubus
30,233 corpus weight
- Dunning
Dunning
30,231 corpus weight
- duroc
duroc
30,230 corpus weight
- dysfonction…
dysfonctionnelle
30,228 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dunning » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dunning |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dunning » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dunning is uncommon French at frequency #69,770 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dunning in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Dunning, spelled D-U-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dunning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dunning et Kruger mènent une enquête auprès d’étudiants, et parviennent à expliquer cet « effet de surconfiance ».
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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