délié
\de.lje\
The verdict
“délié” is uncommon French (frequency #69,785 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,785
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est d’une très grande minceur, d’une très grande finesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delie · délié · French
délié · rank #69,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,785
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH délateur
Nearest frequency peer: délateur (-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 « délié »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- définissons
définissons
30,219 corpus weight
- dégrisement
dégrisement
30,218 corpus weight
- délateur
délateur
30,217 corpus weight
- délié
délié
30,216 corpus weight
- délurée
délurée
30,215 corpus weight
- dépeints
dépeints
30,214 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délié » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délié |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.lje\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délié » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délié is uncommon French at frequency #69,785 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \de.lje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
délié doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is délié, spelled D-É-L-I-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est d’une très grande minceur, d’une très grande finesse.
- 2…
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délié appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un trait de plume fort délié.
Tissu délié.
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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