dicotylédones
\di.kɔ.ti.le.dɔn\
The verdict
“dicotylédones” is uncommon French (frequency #81,952 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,952
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classe des végétaux phanérogames angiospermes comprenant les plantes à ovaires renfermant deux cotylédons dans l’embryon de leur graine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dicotyledones · dicotylédones · French
dicotylédones · rank #81,952 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,952
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dialog
Nearest frequency peer: dialog (-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 « dicotylédones »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- devan
devan
18,051 corpus weight
- dialog
dialog
18,050 corpus weight
- dicotylédon…
dicotylédones
18,049 corpus weight
- dilatés
dilatés
18,048 corpus weight
- dingos
dingos
18,047 corpus weight
- disants
disants
18,046 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dicotylédones » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dicotylédones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.kɔ.ti.le.dɔn\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #81,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dicotylédones » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dicotylédones is uncommon French at frequency #81,952 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.kɔ.ti.le.dɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Classe des végétaux phanérogames angiospermes comprenant les plantes à ovaires renfermant deux cotylédons dans l’embryon de leur graine.".
dicotylédones doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dicotylédones, spelled D-I-C-O-T-Y-L-É-D-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Classe des végétaux phanérogames angiospermes comprenant les plantes à ovaires renfermant deux cotylédons dans l’embryon de leur graine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dicotylédones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les ronces (basses) et les fougères y sont rares, les graminées sont majoritaires, les dicotylédones peu représentées.
Mais nous obtenons le même rendement en complétant le désherbage par une simple application de 2,4-D, ceci en l’absence de dicotylédones !
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).