Duvalier
\dy.va.lje\
The verdict
“Duvalier” is uncommon French (frequency #55,213 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,213
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu pour François Duvalier (1907-1971), dirigeant haïtien et son fils Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duvalier · Duvalier · French
Duvalier · rank #55,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,213
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dussault
Nearest frequency peer: Dussault (-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 « Duvalier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ducos
Ducos
44,791 corpus weight
- Dussault
Dussault
44,789 corpus weight
- Duvalier
Duvalier
44,788 corpus weight
- dye
dye
44,787 corpus weight
- débarrassant
débarrassant
44,786 corpus weight
- déchiqueté
déchiqueté
44,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duvalier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duvalier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.va.lje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duvalier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duvalier is uncommon French at frequency #55,213 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.va.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille, surtout connu pour François Duvalier (1907-1971), dirigeant haïtien et son fils Jean-Claude Duvalier.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Duvalier, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Duvalier, spelled D-U-V-A-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu pour François Duvalier (1907-1971), dirigeant haïtien et son fils Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Duvalier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Duvalier tuaient les vivants et les morts, n’avaient « d’ennemis que ceux de la Nation », traitaient leurs victimes « d’apatrides », leur interdisaient tombes et funérailles.
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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