dilettante

\di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\

/\di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\/ noun

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The verdict

“dilettante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,980
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mélomane, amateur de musique italienne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dilettante · dilettante · French

dilettante · rank #44,980 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,980
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diesels

Nearest frequency peer: diesels (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dilettante »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dilettante » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dilettante
PropertyValue
Headworddilettante
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\
Letters10
Frequency rank#44,980
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dilettante »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dilettantese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « diesels » (#44,979), « dindes » (#44,981), « Dickinson » (#44,978). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dilettante » est au #44,980. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around dilettante (IPA \di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,980 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dilettante, with forms such as "ddilettante", "dielttante", and "diletante". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dilettante, spelled D-I-L-E-T-T-A-N-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mélomane, amateur de musique italienne.
  2. 2
    Passionné de littérature et d’art en général.
  3. 3
    Personne qui n’envisage toutes choses que du point de vue du plaisir esthétique, avec un certain scepticisme général.
  4. 4
    Celui qui s’occupe d’une chose en amateur. Il s’oppose en ce sens à professionnel, homme du métier.
  5. 5
    Personne qui ne témoigne que de peu d’engagement, de motivation ou de sérieux dans les tâches qu'elle exécute.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dilettante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Léon, pour faire le dilettante, se mit à parler musique.
  2. Amis alsaciens, c'est décidément bien vrai, vous êtes d'éternels inassouvis, les dilettantes obstinés d’un mécontentement fondamental ; vous avez toujours la nostalgie d’un je ne sais quoi qui n’existait pas hier et qui ne sera pas demain.

Synonyms

amateurfantaisiste

Antonyms

professionnel

This word in other languages

dilettante(English)diletante(Español)Dilettant(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddilettante
  • dielttante
  • diletante
  • diletatnte
  • dilettanet
  • dilettannte
  • dilettantte
  • dilettatne
  • dilettnate
  • dillettante
  • diltetante
  • dliettante
  • idlettante

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dilettante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddilettante1dielttante2diletante1diletatnte2dilettanet2dilettannte1dilettantte1dilettatne2
Edit distance from "dilettante"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dilettante"?
"dilettante" is spelled D-I-L-E-T-T-A-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\.
What does "dilettante" mean?
As a noun, "dilettante" means: Mélomane, amateur de musique italienne.
What are common misspellings of "dilettante"?
Common misspellings include "ddilettante", "dielttante", "diletante", "diletatnte", "dilettanet". The correct spelling is "dilettante".
How do you pronounce "dilettante"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dilettante" is \di.lɛ.tɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dilettante" come from?
"dilettante" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dilettante", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list