dinky
\ˈdɪŋ.ki\
The verdict
“dinky” is uncommon French (frequency #84,703 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,703
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mignon ; petit et attirant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dinky · dinky · French
dinky · rank #84,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,703
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diminueront
Nearest frequency peer: diminueront (-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 « dinky »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dich
dich
15,301 corpus weight
- différaient
différaient
15,300 corpus weight
- diminueront
diminueront
15,299 corpus weight
- dinky
dinky
15,298 corpus weight
- discrétionn…
discrétionnaires
15,297 corpus weight
- divagation
divagation
15,296 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dinky » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dinky |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈdɪŋ.ki\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dinky » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dinky is uncommon French at frequency #84,703 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈdɪŋ.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dinky, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dinky, spelled D-I-N-K-Y.
Definition
- 1Mignon ; petit et attirant.
- 2Rikiki ; petit et insignifiant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dinky appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky.
“I moved around the right-rear corner of the car and looked around. I saw the guy was using a pistol. Your man Wilson explained that to me—that was lucky, too. I wasn’t real crazy about taking an AK on with a dinky little handgun. He saw me come around. We both fired about the same time—I just shot straighter, I guess.”
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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