d’actualité
The verdict
“d’actualité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récent, contemporain, dont on parle aux dernières nouvelles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-d-actualite · d’actualité · French
d’actualité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | d’actualité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « d’actualité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
d’actualité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Récent, contemporain, dont on parle aux dernières nouvelles.".
d’actualité has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 d’actualité, spelled D-’-A-C-T-U-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Récent, contemporain, dont on parle aux dernières nouvelles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how d’actualité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais, par-delà les réinterprétations anachroniques, Etienne Cabet soulève une question toujours d’actualité : il prétend que les machines vont permettre, en remplaçant les ouvriers, de réduire la durée journalière du travail.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.