Dieulefit
\djøl.fi\
The verdict
“Dieulefit” is uncommon French (frequency #95,799 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,799
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Drôme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dieulefit · Dieulefit · French
Dieulefit · rank #95,799 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,799
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devinant
Nearest frequency peer: devinant (-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 « Dieulefit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- developing
developing
4,204 corpus weight
- devinant
devinant
4,203 corpus weight
- Dieulefit
Dieulefit
4,202 corpus weight
- dijk
dijk
4,200 corpus weight
- dilatoires
dilatoires
4,199 corpus weight
- dimensionnés
dimensionnés
4,197 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dieulefit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dieulefit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \djøl.fi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #95,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dieulefit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dieulefit is uncommon French at frequency #95,799 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \djøl.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Dieulefit has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Dieulefit, spelled D-I-E-U-L-E-F-I-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Drôme.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Drôme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dieulefit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus au nord, des calcaires blancs et des argiles ligniteuses, du domaine lacustre lutétien, sont connus à l'est du Rhône (Nyons, synclinaux de Dieulefit et de Méouge, Drôme) et à l'ouest (synclinaux d’Uzès et de Brouzet-les-Alès, de Laval-Saint-Roman, Gard).
Hélène Guenne-Cingria nous a accueillis, moi et ma grippe, chez elle, à la Chartreuse ; tu es parti sans attendre, là-bas, au-dessus de Dieulefit, dans cette maison perdue que nous appelions le Ciel et qui est décrite dans Les Amants d’Avignon, avec sa beauté et ses rats.
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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