dito
\di.to\
The verdict
“dito” is uncommon French (frequency #87,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,532
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Même chose. S’emploie pour éviter de répéter le nom d’une marchandise déjà désignée juste avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dito · dito · French
dito · rank #87,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,532
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disparaîtraie…
Nearest frequency peer: disparaîtraient (-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 « dito »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dilutions
dilutions
12,472 corpus weight
- Dinklage
Dinklage
12,471 corpus weight
- disparaîtra…
disparaîtraient
12,470 corpus weight
- dito
dito
12,469 corpus weight
- diving
diving
12,468 corpus weight
- documenta
documenta
12,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dito » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dito |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dito » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dito is uncommon French at frequency #87,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Même chose. S’emploie pour éviter de répéter le nom d’une marchandise déjà désignée juste avant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dito, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dito, spelled D-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Même chose. S’emploie pour éviter de répéter le nom d’une marchandise déjà désignée juste avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un sac de café à cent sous ; dix dito à mille.
— Eh ! bien, monsieur, je suis envoyé dans les Départements par une compagnie de banquiers et de capitalistes, qui ont aperçu la perte énorme que font ainsi, en temps et conséquemment en intelligence ou en activité productive, les hommes d’avenir. Or, nous avons eu l’idée de capitaliser à ces hommes ce même avenir, de leur escompter leurs talents, en leur…
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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