ductile
\dyk.til\
The verdict
“ductile” is uncommon French (frequency #94,717 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,717
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut s’étirer sans se rompre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ductile · ductile · French
ductile · rank #94,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,717
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duns
Nearest frequency peer: Duns (+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 « ductile »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DPP
DPP
5,289 corpus weight
- draveurs
draveurs
5,288 corpus weight
- drosophile
drosophile
5,287 corpus weight
- ductile
ductile
5,284 corpus weight
- Duns
Duns
5,282 corpus weight
- dural
dural
5,280 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ductile » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ductile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dyk.til\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ductile » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ductile is uncommon French at frequency #94,717 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dyk.til\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui peut s’étirer sans se rompre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ductile in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ductile, spelled D-U-C-T-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut s’étirer sans se rompre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ductile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les gypses les plus fins, les pierres les plus ductiles, les ardoises les plus homogènes; les argiles les plus pures.
On a pu comprendre que mon caractère n'était pas, en ce temps, des plus faciles, ni si ductile que je l'ai peut-être aujourd'hui ; mais je sais bien pourtant que ce n'est qu'avec Louis que j'ai pu quereller de la sorte, tandis que je crois bien que lui ne querellait pas qu'avec moi.
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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