Dils
\dils\
The verdict
“Dils” is uncommon French (frequency #98,968 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,968
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dils · Dils · French
Dils · rank #98,968 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,968
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffa
Nearest frequency peer: diffa (-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 « Dils »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dichotomique
dichotomique
1,037 corpus weight
- dieser
dieser
1,035 corpus weight
- diffa
diffa
1,034 corpus weight
- Dils
Dils
1,033 corpus weight
- dinka
dinka
1,032 corpus weight
- diplodocus
diplodocus
1,030 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dils » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dils\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dils » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dils is uncommon French at frequency #98,968 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \dils\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Dils, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Dils, spelled D-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En Belgique, les règles concernant les piscines privées sont tout simplement inexistantes. « C’est un grand problème », soupire Joeri Dils, directeur de la BSPA, l’Association belge des pisciniers, fabricants et fournisseurs de matériel de piscine.
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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