Dalila
\da.li.la\
The verdict
“Dalila” is uncommon French (frequency #50,155 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,155
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage biblique qui trahit Samson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalila · Dalila · French
Dalila · rank #50,155 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,155
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dahan
Nearest frequency peer: dahan (-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 « Dalila »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crèves
crèves
49,850 corpus weight
- cultivables
cultivables
49,849 corpus weight
- dahan
dahan
49,847 corpus weight
- Dalila
Dalila
49,846 corpus weight
- darkness
darkness
49,845 corpus weight
- demandiez
demandiez
49,842 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dalila » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dalila |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \da.li.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dalila » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dalila is uncommon French at frequency #50,155 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \da.li.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage biblique qui trahit Samson.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dalila in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Dalila, spelled D-A-L-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Personnage biblique qui trahit Samson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dalila appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous avez commencé l’histoire de Samson, achevez-la... Faites Dalila coupant les cheveux à l’Hercule juif !...
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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