délectent
\de.lɛkt\
The verdict
“délectent” is uncommon French (frequency #93,701 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,701
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de délecter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delectent · délectent · French
délectent · rank #93,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,701
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déiste
Nearest frequency peer: déiste (-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 « délectent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décongestio…
décongestionner
6,302 corpus weight
- déiste
déiste
6,301 corpus weight
- délectent
délectent
6,300 corpus weight
- délivra
délivra
6,299 corpus weight
- déloyaux
déloyaux
6,298 corpus weight
- démaquille
démaquille
6,297 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délectent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délectent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.lɛkt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #93,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délectent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délectent is uncommon French at frequency #93,701 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.lɛkt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
délectent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 délectent, spelled D-É-L-E-C-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de délecter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de délecter.
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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