Delft
The verdict
“Delft” is uncommon French (frequency #53,260 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,260
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune des Pays-Bas située dans la province de la Hollande-Méridionale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delft |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Delft” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Delft is uncommon French at frequency #53,260 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune des Pays-Bas située dans la province de la Hollande-Méridionale.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Delft, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Delft, spelled D-E-L-F-T.
Definition
- 1Commune des Pays-Bas située dans la province de la Hollande-Méridionale.
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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Using “Delft”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-L-F-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.