dicht
\dɪçt\
The verdict
“dicht” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étanche, impénétrable à un fluide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dicht · dicht · French
dicht · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dicht |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɪçt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dicht is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɪçt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dicht in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dicht, spelled D-I-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Étanche, impénétrable à un fluide.
- 2Dense, épais, en parlant d’une quantité (dénombrable ou non) par unité de surface ou de volume, par exemple la densité d’une forêt, d’une chevelure.
- 3Dense, ayant une densité, une masse volumique élevée.
- 4Soûl ou défoncé : complètement ivre, drogué.
- 5Raisonnable, ayant toute sa raison, uniquement dans un contexte de doute ou de négation, dans les expressions noch ganz dicht (question) ou nicht (mehr) ganz dicht (négation).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dicht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Rohr ist nicht mehr ganz dicht: Du sollst das Leck stopfen.
Das Himmelbett, so man es sich leisten konnte, minderte diese Probleme. Der „Himmel“ schützte vor dem von der oft nicht dichten Bretterdecke herabfallenden Ungeziefer. Man stelle sich vor, der Hausvater sitzt im Bett, schnarcht mit offenem Mund und es fällt ihm „etwas“ hinein.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.