delight
\dɪˈlaɪt\
The verdict
“delight” is uncommon French (frequency #74,704 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,704
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delight · delight · French
delight · rank #74,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,704
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deirdre
Nearest frequency peer: Deirdre (-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 « delight »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- decay
decay
25,301 corpus weight
- Deirdre
Deirdre
25,298 corpus weight
- delight
delight
25,297 corpus weight
- deluca
deluca
25,296 corpus weight
- desserre
desserre
25,295 corpus weight
- Deutscher
Deutscher
25,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « delight » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delight |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɪˈlaɪt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « delight » en français
Rare enough to double-check
delight is uncommon French at frequency #74,704 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɪˈlaɪt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for delight in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is delight, spelled D-E-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1Délice.
- 2Joie, allégresse.
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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