dilate
\di.lat\
The verdict
“dilate” is uncommon French (frequency #57,211 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,211
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dilater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dilate · dilate · French
dilate · rank #57,211 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,211
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffusez
Nearest frequency peer: diffusez (-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 « dilate »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- devices
devices
42,793 corpus weight
- diffusez
diffusez
42,791 corpus weight
- dilate
dilate
42,790 corpus weight
- diluviennes
diluviennes
42,789 corpus weight
- dissidentes
dissidentes
42,788 corpus weight
- doctoral
doctoral
42,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dilate » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.lat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dilate » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dilate is uncommon French at frequency #57,211 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dilate, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dilate, spelled D-I-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dilater.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dilater.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dilater.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dilater.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dilater.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dilate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À ses narines surgissent ici et là, à quoi qu’il soit occupé, des croches de parfums surannés, l’odeur des pelures de reinettes ou des zestes de peaux d’orange que sa grand-mère laissait brûler sur le dessus de la cuisinière pour chasser les miasmes microbiens et les esprits malins ou pour embaumer la pièce, et celle, puissante, corsée, qui excite et dila…
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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