Duns
The verdict
“Duns” is uncommon French (frequency #94,719 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,719
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Écosse situé dans les Scottish Borders.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duns · Duns · French
Duns · rank #94,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,719
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH ductile
Nearest frequency peer: ductile (-2 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 « Duns »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DPP
DPP
5,289 corpus weight
- draveurs
draveurs
5,288 corpus weight
- drosophile
drosophile
5,287 corpus weight
- ductile
ductile
5,284 corpus weight
- Duns
Duns
5,282 corpus weight
- dural
dural
5,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duns » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duns |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duns » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duns is uncommon French at frequency #94,719 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Écosse situé dans les Scottish Borders.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Duns, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 Duns, spelled D-U-N-S.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Écosse situé dans les Scottish Borders.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Duns appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bataille de Duns.
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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