dux
\duks\
The verdict
“dux” is uncommon French (frequency #53,910 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Guide, conducteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dux · dux · French
dux · rank #53,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,910
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH débattus
Nearest frequency peer: débattus (+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 « dux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dreal
Dreal
46,094 corpus weight
- dubstep
dubstep
46,093 corpus weight
- dux
dux
46,091 corpus weight
- débattus
débattus
46,090 corpus weight
- déclenchera
déclenchera
46,089 corpus weight
- déclencheurs
déclencheurs
46,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \duks\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #53,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dux is uncommon French at frequency #53,910 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \duks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dux in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dux, spelled D-U-X.
Definition
- 1Guide, conducteur.
- 2Chef, général d’armée.
- 3Prince, souverain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
uti natura duce
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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