delicious
\dɪˈlɪʃ.əs\
The verdict
“delicious” is uncommon French (frequency #69,743 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,743
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délicieux , délicieuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delicious · delicious · French
delicious · rank #69,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,743
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH datacenters
Nearest frequency peer: datacenters (-3 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 « delicious »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- danes
danes
30,263 corpus weight
- Daniil
Daniil
30,262 corpus weight
- datacenters
datacenters
30,261 corpus weight
- delicious
delicious
30,258 corpus weight
- descripteur
descripteur
30,255 corpus weight
- descripteurs
descripteurs
30,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « delicious » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delicious |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɪˈlɪʃ.əs\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « delicious » en français
Rare enough to double-check
delicious is uncommon French at frequency #69,743 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɪˈlɪʃ.əs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Délicieux , délicieuse.".
No misspelling variants are generated for delicious in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is delicious, spelled D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Délicieux , délicieuse.
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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