daltonien
\dal.tɔ.njɛ̃\
The verdict
“daltonien” is uncommon French (frequency #65,842 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,842
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne atteinte de daltonisme, c’est-à-dire ne différenciant pas certaines couleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-daltonien · daltonien · French
daltonien · rank #65,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,842
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dade
Nearest frequency peer: dade (-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 « daltonien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cénotaphe
cénotaphe
34,163 corpus weight
- Cévenol
Cévenol
34,162 corpus weight
- dade
dade
34,160 corpus weight
- daltonien
daltonien
34,159 corpus weight
- dansais
dansais
34,158 corpus weight
- datations
datations
34,157 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « daltonien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | daltonien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dal.tɔ.njɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #65,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « daltonien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
daltonien is uncommon French at frequency #65,842 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dal.tɔ.njɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne atteinte de daltonisme, c’est-à-dire ne différenciant pas certaines couleurs.".
daltonien doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is daltonien, spelled D-A-L-T-O-N-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Personne atteinte de daltonisme, c’est-à-dire ne différenciant pas certaines couleurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how daltonien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première question que l’on pose toujours concernant le daltonisme est : « Comment le daltonien voit-il le monde qui l’entoure? »
Georges déclara à Liane qu’elle était une ravissante petite fée bleue ; elle portait une robe verte. Georges n’était pas daltonien, il savait surprendre les femmes.
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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