Duvernay
\dy.vɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“Duvernay” is uncommon French (frequency #70,556 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,556
- 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-duvernay · Duvernay · French
Duvernay · rank #70,556 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,556
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH durèrent
Nearest frequency peer: durèrent (-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 « Duvernay »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dump
dump
29,448 corpus weight
- Duris
Duris
29,447 corpus weight
- durèrent
durèrent
29,446 corpus weight
- Duvernay
Duvernay
29,445 corpus weight
- décelée
décelée
29,444 corpus weight
- déconcentré
déconcentré
29,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Duvernay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Duvernay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dy.vɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Duvernay » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Duvernay is uncommon French at frequency #70,556 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dy.vɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Duvernay in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Duvernay, spelled D-U-V-E-R-N-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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