datte
\dat\
The verdict
“datte” is uncommon French (frequency #53,256 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,256
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit comestible du palmier-dattier (Phoenix dactylifera), oblong, de quatre à six centimètres de long, contenant un noyau allongé, marqué d’un sillon longitudinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-datte · datte · French
datte · rank #53,256 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,256
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Darko
Nearest frequency peer: Darko (-2 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 « datte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Daho
Daho
46,749 corpus weight
- Darko
Darko
46,747 corpus weight
- datte
datte
46,745 corpus weight
- default
default
46,742 corpus weight
- Delft
Delft
46,741 corpus weight
- demandai
demandai
46,740 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « datte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | datte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « datte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
datte is uncommon French at frequency #53,256 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit comestible du palmier-dattier (Phoenix dactylifera), oblong, de quatre à six centimètres de long, contenant un noyau allongé, marqué d’un sillon longitudinal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for datte 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, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is datte, spelled D-A-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fruit comestible du palmier-dattier (Phoenix dactylifera), oblong, de quatre à six centimètres de long, contenant un noyau allongé, marqué d’un sillon longitudinal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how datte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me rendis avec les chefs militaires aux tentes de Si Saïd, où on nous servit une collation de dattes et de lait de chamelle, une vieille tradition nomade sans doute.
Les dattes représentent la principale production du dattier et elles sont, sans nul doute, ce qui justifie l’intérêt porté à cette espèce par les populations. La datte est un aliment de grande valeur énergétique…
This word in other languages
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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