dalmatiens
\dal.ma.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“dalmatiens” is uncommon French (frequency #79,204 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,204
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dalmatien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalmatiens · dalmatiens · French
dalmatiens · rank #79,204 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,204
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Danzig
Nearest frequency peer: Danzig (+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 « dalmatiens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- côtoyait
côtoyait
20,800 corpus weight
- dahlias
dahlias
20,799 corpus weight
- dalmatiens
dalmatiens
20,797 corpus weight
- Danzig
Danzig
20,796 corpus weight
- daronne
daronne
20,795 corpus weight
- daw
daw
20,794 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dalmatiens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dalmatiens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dal.ma.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dalmatiens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dalmatiens is uncommon French at frequency #79,204 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dal.ma.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dalmatien.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dalmatiens in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dalmatiens, spelled D-A-L-M-A-T-I-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dalmatien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dalmatiens 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.
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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