Dupire
The verdict
“Dupire” is uncommon French (frequency #97,879 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,879
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dupire · Dupire · French
Dupire · rank #97,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,879
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duru
Nearest frequency peer: duru (+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 « Dupire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dresses
dresses
2,125 corpus weight
- dri
dri
2,124 corpus weight
- Dupire
Dupire
2,122 corpus weight
- duru
duru
2,121 corpus weight
- dyn
dyn
2,120 corpus weight
- débloques
débloques
2,119 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dupire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dupire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dupire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dupire is uncommon French at frequency #97,879 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dupire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Dupire, spelled D-U-P-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dupire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme d’autres acteurs clés de Plus belle la vie, Serge Dupire a été contacté par Newen Studios, histoire de tâter le terrain.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).