Dunois

Name: Dunois, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed May 6, 2026

The verdict

“Dunois” is uncommon French (frequency #54,533 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,533
frequency rank, French: 404,891
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Habitant de Châteaudun, commune française située dans le département de l’Eure-et-Loir.

Key facts for Dunois
Property	Value
Headword	Dunois
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#54,533
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Dunois” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Dunois lands here:

#54,533

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Dunois is uncommon French at frequency #54,533 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 11 senses are on record.

Dunois doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Dunois, spelled D-U-N-O-I-S.

Definition

1
Habitant de Châteaudun, commune française située dans le département de l’Eure-et-Loir.
2
Habitant de Duingt, commune française située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
3
Habitant de Dun, commune française située dans le département de l’Ariège.
4
Habitant de Dun-le-Palestel, commune française située dans le département de la Creuse.
5
Habitant de Dun-le-Poëlier, commune française située dans le département de l’Indre.
6
Habitant de Dun-les-Places, commune française située dans le département de la Nièvre.
7
Habitant de Dun-sur-Auron, commune française située dans le département du Cher.
8
Habitant de Dun-sur-Grandry, commune française située dans le département de la Nièvre.
9
Habitant de Dun-sur-Meuse, commune française située dans le département de la Meuse.
10
Habitant de Duneau, commune française située dans le département de la Sarthe.
11
Habitant de Dunes, commune française située dans le département du Tarn-et-Garonne.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Dunois"?

"Dunois" is spelled D-U-N-O-I-S.

What does "Dunois" mean?

As a noun, "Dunois" means: Habitant de Châteaudun, commune française située dans le département de l’Eure-et-Loir.

What language does "Dunois" come from?

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Using “Dunois”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

The one correct French spelling is D-U-N-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.