dink

noun

The verdict

“dink” is uncommon French (frequency #89,604 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,604
frequency rank, French
404,891
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.

Key facts for dink
PropertyValue
Headworddink
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#89,604
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “dink” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). dink lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dink is uncommon French at frequency #89,604 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.".

dink doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dink, spelled D-I-N-K.

Definition

  1. 1
    Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.

This word in other languages

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 "dink"?
"dink" is spelled D-I-N-K.
What does "dink" mean?
As a noun, "dink" means: Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.
What language does "dink" come from?
"dink" 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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Using “dink”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-I-N-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list