dyke
\dajk\
The verdict
“dyke” is uncommon French (frequency #64,386 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,386
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lame de roche magmatique qui s’est infiltrée dans une fissure de l’encaissant, pouvant donner un relief de colonne ou de mur naturel par érosion de ce dernier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dyke · dyke · French
dyke · rank #64,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,386
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dwarf
Nearest frequency peer: dwarf (-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 « dyke »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dressera
dressera
35,618 corpus weight
- droïde
droïde
35,617 corpus weight
- dwarf
dwarf
35,616 corpus weight
- dyke
dyke
35,615 corpus weight
- dynamiter
dynamiter
35,614 corpus weight
- déboussolée
déboussolée
35,613 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dyke » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dyke |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dajk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #64,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dyke » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dyke is uncommon French at frequency #64,386 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dajk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lame de roche magmatique qui s’est infiltrée dans une fissure de l’encaissant, pouvant donner un relief de colonne ou de mur naturel par érosion de ce dernier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dyke in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dyke, spelled D-Y-K-E.
Definition
- 1Lame de roche magmatique qui s’est infiltrée dans une fissure de l’encaissant, pouvant donner un relief de colonne ou de mur naturel par érosion de ce dernier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dyke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre le chemin de L'Ardoise et celui de Glengarry, il y a des felsites pourpres; […]. A la source minérale, la syénite est coupée par un dyke de felsite gris-bleuâtre de deux pieds d'épaisseur.
Ce dyke a atteint la surface deux semaines plus tard et quelques kilomètres au nord du glacier, et une éruption a alors débuté.
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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