Dehli
\de.li\
The verdict
“Dehli” is uncommon French (frequency #91,595 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,595
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de Delhi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dehli · Dehli · French
Dehli · rank #91,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,595
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deere
Nearest frequency peer: deere (-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 « Dehli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Deaux
Deaux
8,408 corpus weight
- deere
deere
8,407 corpus weight
- Dehli
Dehli
8,406 corpus weight
- Delli
Delli
8,404 corpus weight
- denning
denning
8,403 corpus weight
- denticules
denticules
8,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dehli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dehli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \de.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dehli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dehli is uncommon French at frequency #91,595 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \de.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de Delhi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Dehli in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Dehli, spelled D-E-H-L-I.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de Delhi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dehli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
VISIAPOUR, (Géog. mod.) ou Visapour, ou Visapor, royaume des Indes, dans la presqu’ile de l’Inde en-deçà du Gange, sur la côte de Malabar. Ce royaume confine par le nord au royaume de Dehli, & aux autres états du Mogol, au joug duquel il est soumis. La capitale de ce royaume en porte le nom.
Le plus important de tous fut celui qui s’éleva dans l’Hindoustan proprement dit, là même où le sanscrit était le plus florissant, et qui, lorsque cet idiome admirable cessa d’être employé comme langue parlée, le remplaça et mérita d’être appelé, par excellence, langue des Hindous ou hindoui. Il fut usité, dès le temps dont nous parlons, dans les royaumes…
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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