dink
The verdict
“dink” is uncommon French (frequency #89,604 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,604
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dink · dink · French
dink · rank #89,604 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,604
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH digicode
Nearest frequency peer: digicode (-2 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 « dink »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diachronique
diachronique
10,401 corpus weight
- dialectale
dialectale
10,400 corpus weight
- digicode
digicode
10,399 corpus weight
- dink
dink
10,397 corpus weight
- dioxygène
dioxygène
10,395 corpus weight
- discriminées
discriminées
10,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dink » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dink |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dink » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dink is uncommon French at frequency #89,604 among 5,307 “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
- 1Personne en couple, d’environ 25 à 35 ans, sans enfant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces actions de promotion visent à toucher en priorité les familles, sur les périodes de vacances scolaires, et les « dinks », les couples sans enfant âgés de 25 à 35 ans.
Léa et son compagnon sont ce que les Anglo-Saxons appellent les « dinks ».
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.
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