delirium
\de.li.ʁjɔm\
The verdict
“delirium” is uncommon French (frequency #58,542 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,542
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de délirium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delirium · delirium · French
delirium · rank #58,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH damoiselle
Nearest frequency peer: damoiselle (-4 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 « delirium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cèpes
cèpes
41,465 corpus weight
- célestins
célestins
41,464 corpus weight
- damoiselle
damoiselle
41,463 corpus weight
- delirium
delirium
41,459 corpus weight
- diplomatiqu…
diplomatiquement
41,454 corpus weight
- disposerait
disposerait
41,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « delirium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | delirium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.li.ʁjɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « delirium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
delirium is uncommon French at frequency #58,542 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.li.ʁjɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de délirium.".
Zero misspellings are on record for delirium in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 delirium, spelled D-E-L-I-R-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Variante de délirium.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how delirium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’infirmerie toute cliquetante de petits bruits, d'instruments de verre étincelants, carrelage et chrome, recevait l'équipage : accidents du travail, bobos, fracturettes et flemmingites, mais aussi des véroles, des deliriums, de vieux paluds, puis c'était les passagers, pathologie de l'ennui, de l'isolement, des troubles indicibles, la tension, les insomn…
Ces deliriums, décrits dès 1818, réalisent la formule de Kant.
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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