délicatesse
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,134
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
délicatesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est délicat. Pronounced \de.li.ka.tɛs\. Often confused with délicates.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délicatesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.li.ka.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for délicatesse is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.li.ka.tɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,134 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for délicatesse, with forms such as "ddélicatesse", "delicatesse", and "dléicatesse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "délicates", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is délicatesse, spelled D-É-L-I-C-A-T-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est délicat.
- 2Adresse, légèreté, soin.
- 3Ménagement, circonspection.
- 4Qualité de ce qui est agréable au goût.
- 5Sensibilité, aptitude à juger finement de ce qui regarde les sens ou l’esprit.
- 6Ce qui est senti, pensé, fait ou exprimé d’une manière délicate.
- 7Faiblesse, débilité.
- 8Mollesse.
- 9Susceptibilité, facilité à s’offenser, à se choquer.
- 10Scrupules sur ce qui touche à la probité, à la morale, aux bienséances.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddélicatesse,delicatesse,dléicatesse,déilcatesse,délciatesse,déliactesse,délicaetsse,délicatese,délicateses,délicatsese,délicattesse,déliccatesse,délictaesse,déllicatesse,édlicatesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for délicatesse
Misspelling Variants of "délicatesse"
Frequency rank: #15,134 in French
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Nearby French words
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