dunst

/\dʊnst\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#86,631

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dunst is aFrenchverb. It means: Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten. Pronounced \dʊnst\.

Key facts for dunst
PropertyValue
Headworddunst
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dʊnst\
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,631
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dunst in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dunst is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʊnst\. Corpus data places it at rank #86,631 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dunst in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dunst, spelled D-U-N-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.

Frequency rank: #86,631 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dunst"?
"dunst" is spelled D-U-N-S-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dʊnst\.
What does "dunst" mean?
As a verb, "dunst" means: Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.
How do you pronounce "dunst"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dunst" is \dʊnst\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dunst" come from?
"dunst" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.