duplicata
\dy.pli.ka.ta\
The verdict
“duplicata” is uncommon French (frequency #59,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,233
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Double d’une dépêche, d’un brevet, d’une quittance, d’un chèque, d’un acte quelconque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duplicata · duplicata · French
duplicata · rank #59,233 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,233
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dugas
Nearest frequency peer: dugas (-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 « duplicata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drépanocyto…
drépanocytose
40,772 corpus weight
- dugas
dugas
40,769 corpus weight
- duplicata
duplicata
40,768 corpus weight
- déambule
déambule
40,767 corpus weight
- déblaiement
déblaiement
40,766 corpus weight
- déchanter
déchanter
40,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duplicata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duplicata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dy.pli.ka.ta\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duplicata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duplicata is uncommon French at frequency #59,233 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dy.pli.ka.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Double d’une dépêche, d’un brevet, d’une quittance, d’un chèque, d’un acte quelconque.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for duplicata, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 duplicata, spelled D-U-P-L-I-C-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Double d’une dépêche, d’un brevet, d’une quittance, d’un chèque, d’un acte quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duplicata appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si nous étions un peu millionnaire, une de nos fantaisies serait de faire un duplicata de la cour des Lions dans un de nos parcs.
Cette fiche mentionne également si la diapo est un original ou un duplicata, ainsi que les modalités de prêt.
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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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