deltas
\dɛl.ta\
The verdict
“deltas” is uncommon French (frequency #84,692 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,692
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de delta.
Corpus desk
Index FR-deltas · deltas · French
deltas · rank #84,692 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,692
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Decazes
Nearest frequency peer: Decazes (-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 « deltas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Decazes
Decazes
15,312 corpus weight
- deltas
deltas
15,309 corpus weight
- dessaisir
dessaisir
15,306 corpus weight
- desservait
desservait
15,305 corpus weight
- Deutz
Deutz
15,303 corpus weight
- devinent
devinent
15,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « deltas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deltas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛl.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « deltas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
deltas is uncommon French at frequency #84,692 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛl.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de delta.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for deltas in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is deltas, spelled D-E-L-T-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de delta.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how deltas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les zones construites sur les anciens deltas des fleuves côtiers sont déjà celles qui subissent le plus le recul du trait de côte, la côte tendant à se rectilinéariser, en gommant complètement les dernières aspérités.
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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