délite
\de.lit\
The verdict
“délite” is uncommon French (frequency #70,570 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,570
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déliter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delite · délite · French
délite · rank #70,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH délaissement
Nearest frequency peer: délaissement (-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 « délite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dégustant
dégustant
29,434 corpus weight
- dégustez
dégustez
29,433 corpus weight
- délaissement
délaissement
29,432 corpus weight
- délite
délite
29,431 corpus weight
- démener
démener
29,430 corpus weight
- démodée
démodée
29,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.lit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délite is uncommon French at frequency #70,570 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.lit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for délite, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is délite, spelled D-É-L-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déliter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de déliter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de déliter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de déliter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de déliter.
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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