Delli
The verdict
“Delli” is uncommon French (frequency #91,597 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-delli · Delli · French
Delli · rank #91,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH denning
Nearest frequency peer: denning (+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 « Delli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deere
deere
8,407 corpus weight
- Dehli
Dehli
8,406 corpus weight
- Delli
Delli
8,404 corpus weight
- denning
denning
8,403 corpus weight
- denticules
denticules
8,402 corpus weight
- deposit
deposit
8,401 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Delli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Delli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Delli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Delli is uncommon French at frequency #91,597 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Delli, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Delli, spelled D-E-L-L-I.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Delli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Nous sommes arrivés à un accord historique, qui réconcilie l’automobile et le climat, deux frères ennemis », s’est réjouie l’eurodéputée écologiste française Karima Delli, présidente de la commission Transports au Parlement européen.
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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