dilatoires
\di.la.twaʁ\
The verdict
“dilatoires” is uncommon French (frequency #95,802 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,802
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dilatoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dilatoires · dilatoires · French
dilatoires · rank #95,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,802
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dijk
Nearest frequency peer: dijk (-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 « dilatoires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Dison
Dison
4,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dilatoires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilatoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.la.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #95,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dilatoires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dilatoires is uncommon French at frequency #95,802 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.la.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dilatoire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dilatoires in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dilatoires, spelled D-I-L-A-T-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dilatoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dilatoires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La Russie soutient les manœuvres dilatoires de Téhéran.
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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