dictait
\dik.tɛ\
The verdict
“dictait” is uncommon French (frequency #82,852 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,852
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dicter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dictait · dictait · French
dictait · rank #82,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,852
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diest
Nearest frequency peer: Diest (+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 « dictait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- derviches
derviches
17,152 corpus weight
- dictait
dictait
17,149 corpus weight
- Diest
Diest
17,148 corpus weight
- diffuseront
diffuseront
17,147 corpus weight
- diligenter
diligenter
17,146 corpus weight
- discus
discus
17,144 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dictait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dictait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dik.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dictait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dictait is uncommon French at frequency #82,852 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dik.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dicter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dictait, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dictait, spelled D-I-C-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dicter.
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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