dermatite
\dɛʁ.ma.tit\
The verdict
“dermatite” is uncommon French (frequency #79,213 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,213
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation de la peau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dermatite · dermatite · French
dermatite · rank #79,213 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,213
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deny
Nearest frequency peer: deny (-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 « dermatite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daronne
daronne
20,795 corpus weight
- daw
daw
20,794 corpus weight
- deny
deny
20,789 corpus weight
- dermatite
dermatite
20,788 corpus weight
- Dessalines
Dessalines
20,785 corpus weight
- deveniez
deveniez
20,783 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dermatite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dermatite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɛʁ.ma.tit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,213 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dermatite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dermatite is uncommon French at frequency #79,213 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɛʁ.ma.tit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inflammation de la peau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dermatite in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dermatite, spelled D-E-R-M-A-T-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation de la peau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dermatite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si deux parents sont atopiques, en terme d'IgE, en ayant la même maladie, par exemple de l’asthme, leur enfant a 60 % de « chance » d’avoir une maladie atopique, que ce soit de l’asthme mais aussi de l'eczéma, une dermatite, etc.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).