délecter
\de.lɛk.te\
The verdict
“délecter” is uncommon French (frequency #59,967 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,967
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Remplir d’un plaisir qu’on savoure, qu’on goûte avec sensualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delecter · délecter · French
délecter · rank #59,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dégradante
Nearest frequency peer: dégradante (-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 « délecter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- décevez
décevez
40,037 corpus weight
- dédaigneux
dédaigneux
40,036 corpus weight
- dégradante
dégradante
40,035 corpus weight
- délecter
délecter
40,034 corpus weight
- délimitant
délimitant
40,033 corpus weight
- déniche
déniche
40,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délecter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délecter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.lɛk.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délecter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délecter is uncommon French at frequency #59,967 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.lɛk.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
délecter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is délecter, spelled D-É-L-E-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Remplir d’un plaisir qu’on savoure, qu’on goûte avec sensualité.
- 2Prendre beaucoup de plaisir à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délecter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qui la délecta, ce fut surtout l’entrée d’une actrice énorme dont le nez marinait dans un lac de graisse.
Fins gourmets, les Chinois se délectent d'une holothurie vivant dans les eaux tropicales, la bêche-de-mer.
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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