dynamiter
\di.na.mi.te\
The verdict
“dynamiter” is uncommon French (frequency #64,387 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,387
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire exploser avec de la dynamite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dynamiter · dynamiter · French
dynamiter · rank #64,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,387
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dyke
Nearest frequency peer: dyke (-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 « dynamiter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- débrouillar…
débrouillards
35,612 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dynamiter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dynamiter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.na.mi.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dynamiter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dynamiter is uncommon French at frequency #64,387 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.na.mi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dynamiter in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dynamiter, spelled D-Y-N-A-M-I-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire exploser avec de la dynamite.
- 2Faire exploser, détruire, saboter, rendre inopérant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dynamiter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils dynamitent les ponts et les tunnels, les dépôts de marchandises et les vaisseaux de grandes compagnies européennes.
Je ne veux pas dire qu’ils étaient morts mais ils avaient intégré une sorte de secte anti-écologiste avant de se kamikazer en dynamitant les derniers ânes du Poitou.
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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