dunst
\dʊnst\
The verdict
“dunst” is uncommon French (frequency #86,631 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,631
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dunst · dunst · French
dunst · rank #86,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,631
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dufy
Nearest frequency peer: Dufy (-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 « dunst »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dufourcq
Dufourcq
13,372 corpus weight
- Dufy
Dufy
13,371 corpus weight
- dunst
dunst
13,370 corpus weight
- durga
durga
13,369 corpus weight
- Dussollier
Dussollier
13,368 corpus weight
- débitée
débitée
13,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dunst » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dunst |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dʊnst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #86,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dunst » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dunst is uncommon French at frequency #86,631 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dʊnst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dunst in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dunst, spelled D-U-N-S-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dunsten.
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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