duperie
\dy.pʁi\
The verdict
“duperie” is uncommon French (frequency #63,683 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,683
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de duper ou état de celui qui est dupé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duperie · duperie · French
duperie · rank #63,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,683
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dyle
Nearest frequency peer: Dyle (+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 « duperie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dramatisati…
dramatisation
36,321 corpus weight
- druzes
druzes
36,320 corpus weight
- duperie
duperie
36,318 corpus weight
- Dyle
Dyle
36,317 corpus weight
- déambulatoi…
déambulatoire
36,316 corpus weight
- déblatérer
déblatérer
36,315 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duperie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duperie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duperie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duperie is uncommon French at frequency #63,683 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action de duper ou état de celui qui est dupé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duperie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is duperie, spelled D-U-P-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Action de duper ou état de celui qui est dupé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duperie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette affaire n’est qu’une duperie.
Prendre tant de peine pour si peu de résultat, c’est une duperie.
This word in other languages
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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