deltaplane
\del.ta.plan\
The verdict
“deltaplane” is uncommon French (frequency #73,888 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,888
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aéronef à armature rigide de vol libre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deltaplane · deltaplane · French
deltaplane · rank #73,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,888
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Davina
Nearest frequency peer: Davina (-3 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 « deltaplane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Damiette
Damiette
26,119 corpus weight
- davet
davet
26,117 corpus weight
- Davina
Davina
26,116 corpus weight
- deltaplane
deltaplane
26,113 corpus weight
- Deprez
Deprez
26,109 corpus weight
- descendrait
descendrait
26,108 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deltaplane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deltaplane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \del.ta.plan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deltaplane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deltaplane is uncommon French at frequency #73,888 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \del.ta.plan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for deltaplane, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is deltaplane, spelled D-E-L-T-A-P-L-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Aéronef à armature rigide de vol libre.
- 2Pratique sportive aérienne avec cet aéronef.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deltaplane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oh regarde : un deltaplane au-dessus de nous !
On a parfois présenté l’ULM comme le résultat d’un mariage entre un moteur de tondeuse à gazon et un deltaplane, c’est-à-dire une aile volante individuelle servant à planer dans les courants d’air ascendants.
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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