Dutertre
The verdict
“Dutertre” is uncommon French (frequency #75,619 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,619
- 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-dutertre · Dutertre · French
Dutertre · rank #75,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,619
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duodénum
Nearest frequency peer: duodénum (-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 « Dutertre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Drees
Drees
24,386 corpus weight
- Drieu
Drieu
24,385 corpus weight
- duodénum
duodénum
24,383 corpus weight
- Dutertre
Dutertre
24,382 corpus weight
- débours
débours
24,380 corpus weight
- déclenchera…
déclencherait
24,378 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dutertre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dutertre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dutertre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dutertre is uncommon French at frequency #75,619 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 Dutertre in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Dutertre, spelled D-U-T-E-R-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dutertre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« C’est un camouflet pour le gouvernement mais la décision parle d’elle-même », a plus tard réagi l’une des « voix du mouvement », Basile Dutertre.
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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