délitement
\de.lit.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“délitement” is uncommon French (frequency #63,697 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,697
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Délitage, désagrégation d’une formation géologique sédimentaire dans le plan du lit de stratification.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delitement · délitement · French
délitement · rank #63,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,697
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déglingué
Nearest frequency peer: déglingué (-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 « délitement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- défaitisme
défaitisme
36,307 corpus weight
- défoncent
défoncent
36,306 corpus weight
- déglingué
déglingué
36,305 corpus weight
- délitement
délitement
36,304 corpus weight
- dénonça
dénonça
36,302 corpus weight
- désagrège
désagrège
36,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « délitement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | délitement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.lit.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #63,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « délitement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
délitement is uncommon French at frequency #63,697 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \de.lit.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for délitement, 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is délitement, spelled D-É-L-I-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Délitage, désagrégation d’une formation géologique sédimentaire dans le plan du lit de stratification.
- 2Délitage (au sens figuré).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how délitement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces pierres, formées ordinairement du délitement des montagnes, avoient leurs paremens tout dressés.
À la vue de ce paysage on comprend comment le pays s’est formé. Les courants de basalte se sont épanchés dans toutes les directions les uns par-dessus les autres et ont finalement constitué un plateau. Puis […] les glaciers […] ont érodé les bords de cette surface, et y ont creusé les fjords et les vallées. Le travail de délitement ne s’est guère exercé q…
This word in other languages
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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