délégataire
\de.le.ɡa.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“délégataire” is uncommon French (frequency #62,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,224
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui reçoit la délégation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delegataire · délégataire · French
délégataire · rank #62,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,224
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Délos
Nearest frequency peer: Délos (-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 « délégataire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délinquante
délinquante
37,780 corpus weight
- délivrez
délivrez
37,779 corpus weight
- Délos
Délos
37,778 corpus weight
- délégataire
délégataire
37,777 corpus weight
- démarrait
démarrait
37,776 corpus weight
- démarrée
démarrée
37,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délégataire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délégataire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.le.ɡa.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délégataire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délégataire is uncommon French at frequency #62,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.le.ɡa.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui, celle qui reçoit la délégation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for délégataire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 délégataire, spelled D-É-L-É-G-A-T-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui reçoit la délégation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how délégataire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La ville prend en charge les investissements nécessaires au bon traitement de l’eau, le délégataire paie les dépenses de fonctionnement et les salaires de ses salariés.
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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