dificile
\di.fi.sil\
The verdict
“dificile” is uncommon French (frequency #86,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de difficile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dificile · dificile · French
dificile · rank #86,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,613
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diekirch
Nearest frequency peer: Diekirch (-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 « dificile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diamantaire
diamantaire
13,391 corpus weight
- dictant
dictant
13,390 corpus weight
- Diekirch
Diekirch
13,389 corpus weight
- dificile
dificile
13,388 corpus weight
- dirigisme
dirigisme
13,387 corpus weight
- disert
disert
13,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dificile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dificile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.fi.sil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dificile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dificile is uncommon French at frequency #86,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.fi.sil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de difficile.".
dificile has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dificile, spelled D-I-F-I-C-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de difficile.
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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