dels
\dɛl\
The verdict
“dels” is uncommon French (frequency #71,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,421
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de del.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dels · dels · French
dels · rank #71,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,421
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Defferre
Nearest frequency peer: Defferre (-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 « dels »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- céréalières
céréalières
28,586 corpus weight
- côtoyaient
côtoyaient
28,585 corpus weight
- dall
dall
28,584 corpus weight
- Defferre
Defferre
28,581 corpus weight
- dels
dels
28,580 corpus weight
- diagnostiqu…
diagnostiquées
28,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dels » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dels |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dels » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dels is uncommon French at frequency #71,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de del.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dels, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dels, spelled D-E-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de del.
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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