dactylo
\dak.ti.lo\
The verdict
“dactylo” is uncommon French (frequency #66,640 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,640
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employé de bureau généralement chargé de dactylographier des lettres et autres documents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dactylo · dactylo · French
dactylo · rank #66,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,640
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céderai
Nearest frequency peer: céderai (-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 « dactylo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cuts
cuts
33,365 corpus weight
- cyclonique
cyclonique
33,364 corpus weight
- cymes
cymes
33,363 corpus weight
- céderai
céderai
33,362 corpus weight
- dactylo
dactylo
33,361 corpus weight
- dau
dau
33,357 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dactylo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dactylo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dak.ti.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dactylo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dactylo is uncommon French at frequency #66,640 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dak.ti.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dactylo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dactylo, spelled D-A-C-T-Y-L-O.
Definition
- 1Employé de bureau généralement chargé de dactylographier des lettres et autres documents.
- 2Secrétaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dactylo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mounette commence à travailler en 1927 comme sténo-dactylo.
– Et puis elle a un métier ! – Dactylo, c’est pas un métier ! – Sept cent balles par mois, mon vieux ! Et elle sera augmentée l’année prochaine !
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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