Diabaté

name

The verdict

“Diabaté” is uncommon French (frequency #51,408 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,408
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-diabate · Diabaté · French

Diabaté · rank #51,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,408
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diaboliser

Nearest frequency peer: diaboliser (+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 « Diabaté »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Diabaté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Diabaté
PropertyValue
HeadwordDiabaté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#51,408
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Diabaté » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Diabatétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « diaboliser » (#51,409), « digressions » (#51,410), « dessertes » (#51,405). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « Diabaté » est au #51,408. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Diabaté is uncommon French at frequency #51,408 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Diabaté, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

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 Diabaté, spelled D-I-A-B-A-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Diabaté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Quatre Français, un record, ont été choisis au cours de la même draft à trois reprises : Petro, Mahinmi, Turiaf, Gelabale en 2005 ; Yabusele, Luwawu-Cabarrot, Cordinier, Cornelie en 2016 ; O. Dieng, Diabaté, Kamagaté, H. Besson en 2022.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Diabaté"?
"Diabaté" is spelled D-I-A-B-A-T-É.
What does "Diabaté" mean?
As a proper noun, "Diabaté" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Diabaté" come from?
"Diabaté" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Diabaté", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list