dentelée
\dɑ̃.tə.le\
The verdict
“dentelée” is uncommon French (frequency #83,771 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,771
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dentelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentelee · dentelée · French
dentelée · rank #83,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,771
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Desmarets
Nearest frequency peer: Desmarets (+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 « dentelée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- danza
danza
16,237 corpus weight
- Dehaene
Dehaene
16,233 corpus weight
- dentelée
dentelée
16,230 corpus weight
- Desmarets
Desmarets
16,228 corpus weight
- dessiccation
dessiccation
16,227 corpus weight
- desséchées
desséchées
16,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dentelée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tə.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dentelée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dentelée is uncommon French at frequency #83,771 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɑ̃.tə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de dentelé.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dentelée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dentelée, spelled D-E-N-T-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dentelé.
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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