deadly
\ˈdɛd.li\
The verdict
“deadly” is uncommon French (frequency #77,411 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,411
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meurtrier, mortel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deadly · deadly · French
deadly · rank #77,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,411
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DDD
Nearest frequency peer: DDD (-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 « deadly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dansons
dansons
22,594 corpus weight
- datura
datura
22,592 corpus weight
- DDD
DDD
22,591 corpus weight
- deadly
deadly
22,590 corpus weight
- deeds
deeds
22,589 corpus weight
- dental
dental
22,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deadly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deadly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈdɛd.li\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deadly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deadly is uncommon French at frequency #77,411 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈdɛd.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Meurtrier, mortel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deadly, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is deadly, spelled D-E-A-D-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Meurtrier, mortel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deadly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?
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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