dahlias
\da.lja\
The verdict
“dahlias” is uncommon French (frequency #79,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,202
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dahlia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dahlias · dahlias · French
dahlias · rank #79,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,202
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH côtoyait
Nearest frequency peer: côtoyait (-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 « dahlias »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cumulatifs
cumulatifs
20,802 corpus weight
- Cythère
Cythère
20,801 corpus weight
- côtoyait
côtoyait
20,800 corpus weight
- dahlias
dahlias
20,799 corpus weight
- dalmatiens
dalmatiens
20,797 corpus weight
- Danzig
Danzig
20,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dahlias » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dahlias |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.lja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dahlias » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dahlias is uncommon French at frequency #79,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.lja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dahlia.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dahlias, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dahlias, spelled D-A-H-L-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dahlia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dahlias appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même que les horticulteurs s’adonnent aux roses, aux dahlias, aux œillets, aux pélargoniums, et ne font aucune attention à l’espèce qu’ils n'ont pas élue pour leur fantaisie, ce jeune La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt appartenait aux ouvriers, aux prolétaires, aux misères des faubourgs Saint-Jacques et Saint-Marceau.
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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