dictons
\dik.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“dictons” is uncommon French (frequency #50,163 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,163
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dicton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dictons · dictons · French
dictons · rank #50,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,163
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH destinait
Nearest frequency peer: destinait (-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 « dictons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Denain
Denain
49,841 corpus weight
- desk
desk
49,840 corpus weight
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
- Didon
Didon
49,837 corpus weight
- dien
dien
49,836 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dictons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dictons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dik.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dictons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dictons is uncommon French at frequency #50,163 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dik.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dicton.".
dictons 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dictons, spelled D-I-C-T-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dicton.
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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