dentelé
\dɑ̃.tə.le\
The verdict
“dentelé” is uncommon French (frequency #73,066 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,066
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont le bord est découpé en dents irrégulières.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentele · dentelé · French
dentelé · rank #73,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,066
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desbiens
Nearest frequency peer: Desbiens (+2 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 « dentelé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delambre
Delambre
26,940 corpus weight
- demeurerait
demeurerait
26,938 corpus weight
- dentelé
dentelé
26,935 corpus weight
- Desbiens
Desbiens
26,933 corpus weight
- destituée
destituée
26,930 corpus weight
- diaconat
diaconat
26,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dentelé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentelé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tə.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dentelé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dentelé is uncommon French at frequency #73,066 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɑ̃.tə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dentelé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 dentelé, spelled D-E-N-T-E-L-É.
Definition
- 1Dont le bord est découpé en dents irrégulières.
- 2Dont le bord est découpé en petites dents fines et serrées.
- 3Caractérisé par de petits pans alignés et serrés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dentelé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Partout des gazes blanches ou peintes comme les ailes des plus jolies libellules, des crêpes, des dentelles, des blondes, des tulles variés comme les fantaisies de la nature entomologique, découpés, ondés, dentelés, des fils d’aranéide en or, en argent, des brouillards de soie, des fleurs brodées par les fées ou fleuries par des génies emprisonnés, des pl…
La feuille de l’orme est dentelée.
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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