diablotins
\djɑ.blɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“diablotins” is uncommon French (frequency #89,599 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,599
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de diablotin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diablotins · diablotins · French
diablotins · rank #89,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,599
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diachronique
Nearest frequency peer: diachronique (+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 « diablotins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- developed
developed
10,404 corpus weight
- diablotins
diablotins
10,402 corpus weight
- diachronique
diachronique
10,401 corpus weight
- dialectale
dialectale
10,400 corpus weight
- digicode
digicode
10,399 corpus weight
- dink
dink
10,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diablotins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diablotins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djɑ.blɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #89,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diablotins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diablotins is uncommon French at frequency #89,599 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \djɑ.blɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
diablotins doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 diablotins, spelled D-I-A-B-L-O-T-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de diablotin.
- 2Pas aussi mal que je le voudrais, répondit-il, mais sans parler de mon bras, chaque pouce de mon corps est aussi malade que si j’avais lutté avec une légion de diablotins. — (Emily Brontë, Un amant, 1892, Traduction de Théodore de Wyzewa, page 210)
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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