Duterte
The verdict
“Duterte” is uncommon French (frequency #71,444 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,444
- 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-duterte · Duterte · French
Duterte · rank #71,444 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,444
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DVDs
Nearest frequency peer: DVDs (+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 « Duterte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dribbler
dribbler
28,561 corpus weight
- Duterte
Duterte
28,557 corpus weight
- DVDs
DVDs
28,556 corpus weight
- dynamiqueme…
dynamiquement
28,555 corpus weight
- débarquées
débarquées
28,554 corpus weight
- déboursés
déboursés
28,553 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duterte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duterte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duterte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duterte is uncommon French at frequency #71,444 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Duterte in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Duterte, spelled D-U-T-E-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Duterte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En mai, Rodrigo Duterte a été élu [président de la république des Philippines], puis, un mois après, il y a eu le Brexit.
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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