dalmatien
\dal.ma.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“dalmatien” is uncommon French (frequency #95,780 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,780
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Race de chien de chasse et d’agrément, originaire de Croatie, de taille moyenne, au poil court et brillant, à robe blanche avec tâches rondes noires ou marron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalmatien · dalmatien · French
dalmatien · rank #95,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,780
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dalmate
Nearest frequency peer: dalmate (-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 « dalmatien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- daylight
daylight
4,217 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dalmatien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dalmatien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dal.ma.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dalmatien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dalmatien is uncommon French at frequency #95,780 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dal.ma.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Race de chien de chasse et d’agrément, originaire de Croatie, de taille moyenne, au poil court et brillant, à robe blanche avec tâches rondes noires ou marron.".
dalmatien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 dalmatien, spelled D-A-L-M-A-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Race de chien de chasse et d’agrément, originaire de Croatie, de taille moyenne, au poil court et brillant, à robe blanche avec tâches rondes noires ou marron.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dalmatien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après la mode des labradors et dalmatiens, une nouvelle tendance a suivi : celle des « molosses », American Staffordshire terrier, malinois et autres dogues.
Ces chiens ont été rendus très populaires par un dessin animé de Walt Disney dont ils étaient les héros, intitulé « Les 101 Dalmatiens ».
Synonyms
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).