dye
The verdict
“dye” is uncommon French (frequency #55,214 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,214
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ivre, aviné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dye · dye · French
dye · rank #55,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,214
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Duvalier
Nearest frequency peer: Duvalier (-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 « dye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dussault
Dussault
44,789 corpus weight
- Duvalier
Duvalier
44,788 corpus weight
- dye
dye
44,787 corpus weight
- débarrassant
débarrassant
44,786 corpus weight
- déchiqueté
déchiqueté
44,785 corpus weight
- décime
décime
44,784 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dye is uncommon French at frequency #55,214 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ivre, aviné.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dye in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dye, spelled D-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Ivre, aviné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moussa au serveur : "... Mais avant, donne-moi encore une autre bière. — T'es sûr ? — Oui kêh. Pourquoi ? — Parce que t'es déjà dye, mon gars."
Synonyms
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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