DTC
\de.te.se\
The verdict
“DTC” is uncommon French (frequency #77,436 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,436
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réponse cassante à une demande de situation, de localisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dtc · DTC · French
DTC · rank #77,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,436
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH duathlon
Nearest frequency peer: duathlon (+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 « DTC »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Doullens
Doullens
22,569 corpus weight
- drainés
drainés
22,568 corpus weight
- DTC
DTC
22,565 corpus weight
- duathlon
duathlon
22,564 corpus weight
- déboucha
déboucha
22,562 corpus weight
- déboulent
déboulent
22,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DTC » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DTC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \de.te.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #77,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DTC » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DTC is uncommon French at frequency #77,436 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \de.te.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Réponse cassante à une demande de situation, de localisation.".
Zero misspellings are on record for DTC in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is DTC, spelled D-T-C.
Definition
- 1Réponse cassante à une demande de situation, de localisation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DTC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Où as-tu mis le stylographe ? — DTC !
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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