dalmate
\dal.mat\
The verdict
“dalmate” is uncommon French (frequency #95,779 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,779
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la Dalmatie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalmate · dalmate · French
dalmate · rank #95,779 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,779
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dalmatien
Nearest frequency peer: dalmatien (+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 « dalmate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cédérom
cédérom
4,227 corpus weight
- Daan
Daan
4,225 corpus weight
- dalmate
dalmate
4,222 corpus weight
- dalmatien
dalmatien
4,221 corpus weight
- danubiennes
danubiennes
4,220 corpus weight
- daya
daya
4,218 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dalmate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dalmate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dal.mat\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dalmate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dalmate is uncommon French at frequency #95,779 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dal.mat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la Dalmatie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dalmate in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dalmate, spelled D-A-L-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la Dalmatie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dalmate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Encadrée par ses officiers, des surmulots au pelage roux originaires des de la côte dalmate, une centurie de loirs avait pris porition dans l’arrière-cour d’un ummeuble de la Butte-aux-Cailles.
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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