darjeeling
\daʁd.ʒi.liŋ\
The verdict
“darjeeling” is uncommon French (frequency #70,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,518
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de thé noir originaire de la région de Darjeeling.
Corpus desk
Index FR-darjeeling · darjeeling · French
darjeeling · rank #70,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,518
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dansants
Nearest frequency peer: dansants (-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 « darjeeling »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cutie
cutie
29,487 corpus weight
- cyclotouris…
cyclotourisme
29,486 corpus weight
- damoiseau
damoiseau
29,485 corpus weight
- dansants
dansants
29,484 corpus weight
- darjeeling
darjeeling
29,483 corpus weight
- datif
datif
29,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « darjeeling » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | darjeeling |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \daʁd.ʒi.liŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « darjeeling » en français
Rare enough to double-check
darjeeling is uncommon French at frequency #70,518 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \daʁd.ʒi.liŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de thé noir originaire de la région de Darjeeling.".
darjeeling has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is darjeeling, spelled D-A-R-J-E-E-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variété de thé noir originaire de la région de Darjeeling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how darjeeling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est délicieux ton darjeeling.
Je ne suis pas franchement amatrice des darjeelings de printemps.
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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