dactylographie
\dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fi\
The verdict
“dactylographie” is uncommon French (frequency #87,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,515
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art ou métier de dactylographe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dactylographie · dactylographie · French
dactylographie · rank #87,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,515
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH céphalique
Nearest frequency peer: céphalique (-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 « dactylographie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- custode
custode
12,489 corpus weight
- cybercrimin…
cybercriminels
12,488 corpus weight
- céphalique
céphalique
12,487 corpus weight
- dactylograp…
dactylographie
12,486 corpus weight
- daigner
daigner
12,485 corpus weight
- dain
dain
12,484 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dactylographie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dactylographie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #87,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dactylographie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dactylographie is uncommon French at frequency #87,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dak.ti.lɔ.ɡʁa.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dactylographie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dactylographie, spelled D-A-C-T-Y-L-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Art ou métier de dactylographe.
- 2Résultat du travail effectué par un ou une dactylographe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dactylographie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a réservé à son enfant une situation de demoiselle, c’est-à-dire qu'elle s'est saignée pour lui faire apprendre la sténo et la dactylographie.
Le directeur de « Top-Copy » se montra très aimable et remit à Françoise un manuscrit de deux cents pages en échange des dactylographies qu’elle lui apportait.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).