Dupont
\dy.pɔ̃\
The verdict
“Dupont” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,815. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,815
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille fréquent en France ^([Ins]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-dupont · Dupont · French
Dupont · rank #7,815 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,815
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débattre
Nearest frequency peer: débattre (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dupont »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- directions
directions
92,189 corpus weight
- dominant
dominant
92,188 corpus weight
- Dupont
Dupont
92,186 corpus weight
- débattre
débattre
92,185 corpus weight
- démons
démons
92,184 corpus weight
- département…
départemental
92,183 corpus weight
What this shows « Dupont » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dupont |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.pɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dupont »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Dupont (IPA \dy.pɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,815 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille fréquent en France ^([Ins]).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dupont, with forms such as "ddupont", "dpuont", and "duopnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "durant", "durent", "dont", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dupont, spelled D-U-P-O-N-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille fréquent en France ^([Ins]).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dupont appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Monsieur Dupond, la la la la Monsieur Dupont, la la la la Une demoiselle si jolie aurait besoin de compagnie Monsieur Dupond, la la la la Monsieur Dupont, la la la la Je vous en prie, prenez mon bras et suivez-moi
À la ferme pédagogique qu’ils ont créée en avril 2021 à Semussac, Stéphane Macaire et Mélanie Dupont ont ajouté cette année un labyrinthe de maïs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddupont
- dpuont
- duopnt
- dupnot
- duponnt
- dupontt
- dupotn
- duppont
- udpont
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dupont - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Dupont", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).