dentelées
\dɑ̃.tə.le\
The verdict
“dentelées” is uncommon French (frequency #95,789 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,789
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dentelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dentelees · dentelées · French
dentelées · rank #95,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,789
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dens
Nearest frequency peer: dens (-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 « dentelées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- danubiennes
danubiennes
4,220 corpus weight
- daya
daya
4,218 corpus weight
- daylight
daylight
4,217 corpus weight
- dens
dens
4,213 corpus weight
- dentelées
dentelées
4,212 corpus weight
- dessinaient
dessinaient
4,208 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dentelées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dentelées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɑ̃.tə.le\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dentelées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dentelées is uncommon French at frequency #95,789 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɑ̃.tə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dentelé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dentelées, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dentelées, spelled D-E-N-T-E-L-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel 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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