Dutroux
\dy.tʁu\
The verdict
“Dutroux” is uncommon French (frequency #52,630 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,630
- 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-dutroux · Dutroux · French
Dutroux · rank #52,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,630
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH durch
Nearest frequency peer: durch (-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 « Dutroux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Duprat
Duprat
47,374 corpus weight
- durch
durch
47,372 corpus weight
- Dutroux
Dutroux
47,371 corpus weight
- déboussolé
déboussolé
47,370 corpus weight
- décidai
décidai
47,369 corpus weight
- déduits
déduits
47,368 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dutroux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dutroux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.tʁu\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dutroux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dutroux is uncommon French at frequency #52,630 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.tʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dutroux, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Dutroux, spelled D-U-T-R-O-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dutroux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vingt ans après les faits, on hésite encore à y replonger… Trop de souffrance, trop d’horreur. En Belgique pourtant, personne n’a oublié les prénoms de Julie, Mélissa, An, Eefje, Sabine et Laetitia. Six jeunes filles victimes de la folie perverse d’un homme, Marc Dutroux, et de ses complices. Entre juin 1995 et août 1996, elles ont toutes été enlevées, sé…
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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