dish
\dɪʃ\
The verdict
“dish” is uncommon French (frequency #76,493 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,493
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assiette.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dish · dish · French
dish · rank #76,493 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,493
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigeront
Nearest frequency peer: dirigeront (-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 « dish »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diffamations
diffamations
23,511 corpus weight
- digger
digger
23,510 corpus weight
- dirigeront
dirigeront
23,509 corpus weight
- dish
dish
23,508 corpus weight
- distillant
distillant
23,507 corpus weight
- distinguo
distinguo
23,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dish » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɪʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,493 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dish » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dish is uncommon French at frequency #76,493 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɪʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dish, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dish, spelled D-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Assiette.
- 2Plat.
- 3Vaisselle (= dishes).
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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