dactyle
French, noun/dak.til/
dactyle is spelled D-A-C-T-Y-L-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written French, the 122,418th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dactyle is a French masculine noun meaning “dactyl (poetical foot of three syllables)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pied qui est formé d’une syllabe longue suivie de deux brèves, comme le doigt qui comporte une phalange…”.
What does dactyle mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedactyl (poetical foot of three syllables)
- 2
masculinecocksfoot
suffix
- 1
-dactyl
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pied qui est formé d’une syllabe longue suivie de deux brèves, comme le doigt qui comporte une phalange longue et deux courtes.
noun: 1. Poacée dont la forme des épis fait penser à des doigts.
noun: 1. Datte de mer.
suffix: 1. Suffixe des mots en rapport avec le doigt, son usage.
adjective: 1. Qui a l’aspect d’un doigt.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dactyle
- dactyles plural
- dactylés plural masculine
- dactylée singular feminine
- dactylées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dactyle?
- /dak.til/
- \dak.til\
- [daktil]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dactyle
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dactyle in French?
dactyle appears about once in every 14 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).