Dalian
\da.ljan\
The verdict
“Dalian” is uncommon French (frequency #72,234 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,234
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville chinoise du Liaoning.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalian · Dalian · French
Dalian · rank #72,234 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,234
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Daigle
Nearest frequency peer: Daigle (-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 « Dalian »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crépitement
crépitement
27,771 corpus weight
- cyclopes
cyclopes
27,769 corpus weight
- Daigle
Daigle
27,768 corpus weight
- Dalian
Dalian
27,767 corpus weight
- daller
daller
27,766 corpus weight
- damner
damner
27,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dalian » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dalian |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.ljan\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dalian » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dalian is uncommon French at frequency #72,234 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.ljan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville chinoise du Liaoning.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Dalian, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Dalian, spelled D-A-L-I-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ville chinoise du Liaoning.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dalian appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dalian est devenu un port très important de par sa localisation stratégique, aussi bien militaire que commercial, et la distance qui sépare la ville du gouvernement central. Son développement rapide lui a permis récemment d’avoir l’honneur d’être considéré comme le centre des échanges de l’Asie du nord-est et d’être surnommé le « Hong Kong de la Chine du…
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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