dalot
\da.lo\
The verdict
“dalot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trou, canal pour faire écouler les eaux hors du navire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dalot · dalot · French
dalot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dalot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \da.lo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dalot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \da.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dalot in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dalot, spelled D-A-L-O-T.
Definition
- 1Trou, canal pour faire écouler les eaux hors du navire.
- 2Conduit maçonné permettant l'écoulement des eaux d'un remblai le long d'une route, d'une voie ferrée, etc.
- 3Sorte de gouttière située de chaque côté d’une allée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dalot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a plusieurs dalots à chaque bord.
Le pont se remplissait, à chaque plongeon, et la nappe liquide, ne trouvant pas par les dalots un assez rapide écoulement, pouvait submerger le navire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.