dédales
\de.dal\
The verdict
“dédales” is uncommon French (frequency #73,918 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,918
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dédale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dedales · dédales · French
dédales · rank #73,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,918
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH découlait
Nearest frequency peer: découlait (-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 « dédales »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décile
décile
26,086 corpus weight
- décontenancé
décontenancé
26,085 corpus weight
- découlait
découlait
26,084 corpus weight
- dédales
dédales
26,083 corpus weight
- dédommage
dédommage
26,082 corpus weight
- dédoubler
dédoubler
26,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dédales » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédales |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.dal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dédales » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dédales is uncommon French at frequency #73,918 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.dal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dédale.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dédales in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dédales, spelled D-É-D-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dédale.
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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