Durfort
\dyʁ.fɔʁ\
The verdict
“Durfort” is uncommon French (frequency #81,966 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,966
- 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-durfort · Durfort · French
Durfort · rank #81,966 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,966
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dumézil
Nearest frequency peer: Dumézil (-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 « Durfort »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- donde
donde
18,039 corpus weight
- Draxler
Draxler
18,037 corpus weight
- Dumézil
Dumézil
18,036 corpus weight
- Durfort
Durfort
18,035 corpus weight
- duveteux
duveteux
18,034 corpus weight
- déchiqueter
déchiqueter
18,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Durfort » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Durfort |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dyʁ.fɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Durfort » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Durfort is uncommon French at frequency #81,966 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dyʁ.fɔʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Durfort doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Durfort, spelled D-U-R-F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Durfort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au pied d’un versant du Tuchenn Kador, le botaniste José Durfort gratte le sol sous la végétation noircie par le feu.
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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