délayer
\de.le.je\
The verdict
“délayer” is uncommon French (frequency #95,834 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,834
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Détremper, plonger dans un liquide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delayer · délayer · French
délayer · rank #95,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,834
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défigurés
Nearest frequency peer: défigurés (-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 « délayer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défaille
défaille
4,170 corpus weight
- défiera
défiera
4,169 corpus weight
- défigurés
défigurés
4,168 corpus weight
- délayer
délayer
4,167 corpus weight
- démise
démise
4,165 corpus weight
- dénichée
dénichée
4,164 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délayer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délayer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.le.je\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délayer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délayer is uncommon French at frequency #95,834 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.le.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
délayer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 délayer, spelled D-É-L-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Détremper, plonger dans un liquide.
- 2Étaler, étirer, décompacter.
- 3Noyer dans une profusion de mots une pensée, un sentiment, en parlant d’un écrivain ou d’un orateur.
- 4Décontracter un bras, en le laissant pendre et en secouant.
- 5Différer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un coffre en bois de chêne, appelé pétrin, on introduit la quantité de farine que l’on veut convertir en pain, en l’écartant sur les bords, puis on délaye au milieu le levain avec de l’eau chaude et une partie de la farine.
En été, elles se dessèchent et se crevassent, et les premières pluies de l'automne font couler dans les fentes les couches superficielles délayées, exposant ainsi des terrains toujours nouveaux à la surface.
Synonyms
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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