dalmatien

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dalmatien is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dal.ma.sjɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #95,780 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".

No misspelling variants are generated for dalmatien in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dalmatien, spelled D-A-L-M-A-T-I-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.