dilatent
\di.lat\
The verdict
“dilatent” is uncommon French (frequency #85,638 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,638
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dilater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dilatent · dilatent · French
dilatent · rank #85,638 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,638
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH difformité
Nearest frequency peer: difformité (-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 « dilatent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DFS
DFS
14,366 corpus weight
- diapositive
diapositive
14,365 corpus weight
- difformité
difformité
14,364 corpus weight
- dilatent
dilatent
14,363 corpus weight
- dirigiste
dirigiste
14,361 corpus weight
- divertissan…
divertissants
14,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dilatent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilatent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.lat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dilatent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dilatent is uncommon French at frequency #85,638 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.lat\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dilatent in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dilatent, spelled D-I-L-A-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dilater.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dilater.
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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