dialectal
\dja.lɛk.tal\
The verdict
“dialectal” is uncommon French (frequency #74,710 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,710
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au dialecte, au parler régional.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dialectal · dialectal · French
dialectal · rank #74,710 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,710
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deutscher
Nearest frequency peer: Deutscher (-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 « dialectal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- desserre
desserre
25,295 corpus weight
- Deutscher
Deutscher
25,293 corpus weight
- dialectal
dialectal
25,291 corpus weight
- discriminé
discriminé
25,289 corpus weight
- disjoints
disjoints
25,288 corpus weight
- distribuera
distribuera
25,287 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dialectal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dialectal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dja.lɛk.tal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #74,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dialectal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dialectal is uncommon French at frequency #74,710 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dja.lɛk.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au dialecte, au parler régional.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dialectal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dialectal, spelled D-I-A-L-E-C-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au dialecte, au parler régional.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dialectal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ce sens, le « Théâtre Alsacien de Strasbourg » ne représente quʼune société supplémentaire qui cherche à faire vivre ce théâtre dialectal.
L’IGN a estimé qu'il y avait donc un très grand intérêt à établir un fichier de termes dialectaux attestés en toponymie ou susceptibles d'y être rencontrés ; […].
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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