deli
[dɛli]
The verdict
“deli” is uncommon French (frequency #68,192 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,192
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Traiteur (typiquement offrant la restauration sur place).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dɛli] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deli” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
deli is uncommon French at frequency #68,192 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [dɛli]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Traiteur (typiquement offrant la restauration sur place).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for deli, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 deli, spelled D-E-L-I.
Definition
- 1Traiteur (typiquement offrant la restauration sur place).
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 “deli”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-E-L-I - 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.