déité
\de.i.te\
The verdict
“déité” is uncommon French (frequency #71,456 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,456
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Essence divine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deite · déité · French
déité · rank #71,456 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,456
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déficientes
Nearest frequency peer: déficientes (-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 « déité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décréta
décréta
28,548 corpus weight
- défavorable…
défavorablement
28,547 corpus weight
- déficientes
déficientes
28,546 corpus weight
- déité
déité
28,545 corpus weight
- délimitatio…
délimitations
28,544 corpus weight
- démarrages
démarrages
28,543 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « déité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | déité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.i.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « déité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
déité is uncommon French at frequency #71,456 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.i.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
déité has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 déité, spelled D-É-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Essence divine.
- 2Dieu ou déesse.
- 3Dieu ou déesse de la fable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how déité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Grecs et les Romains ont fait régner de fausses déités.
[…] Déités immortelles ! Mon fils serait vengé ! N’est-ce point une erreur ?
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).