duveteux
\dyv.tø\
The verdict
“duveteux” is uncommon French (frequency #81,967 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a beaucoup de duvet, en parlant des oiseaux et des fruits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-duveteux · duveteux · French
duveteux · rank #81,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Durfort
Nearest frequency peer: Durfort (-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 « duveteux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Draxler
Draxler
18,037 corpus weight
- Dumézil
Dumézil
18,036 corpus weight
- Durfort
Durfort
18,035 corpus weight
- duveteux
duveteux
18,034 corpus weight
- déchiqueter
déchiqueter
18,032 corpus weight
- déclarative
déclarative
18,031 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « duveteux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | duveteux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dyv.tø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « duveteux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
duveteux is uncommon French at frequency #81,967 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dyv.tø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for duveteux in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is duveteux, spelled D-U-V-E-T-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui a beaucoup de duvet, en parlant des oiseaux et des fruits.
- 2Qui a les qualités du duvet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how duveteux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Le castor fournit un pelage duveteux, très fin avec de longs poils brillants. C'est une matière textile de luxe qui vient de Sibérie ou du centre de l'Amérique.
Venez vite! Les oeufs se fendillent! Ohoah! Nous allons avoir vingt p’tits poussins duveteux!
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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