diable
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,528
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
diable is aFrenchnoun. It means: Créature infernale. Pronounced \djɑbl\. It ranks #3,528 in French word frequency. Often confused with dial and diane.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djɑbl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,528 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diable is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \djɑbl\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,528 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for diable, with forms such as "daible", "ddiable", and "diabble". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "dial", "diane", "double", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is diable, spelled D-I-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Créature infernale.
- 2Personne très méchante, ou violente, emportée, ou d’une pétulance excessive, d’une turbulence incommode et bruyante.
- 3Homme. (→ voir pauvre diable)
- 4Outil de manutention muni de deux roulettes et de deux bras permettant de déplacer de lourds objets.
- 5Récipient de terre cuite qui permet de cuire sans eau à l’intérieur d’un feu.
- 6Espèce de charrette à quatre roues fort basses, qui sert au transport de certaines marchandises et qui fait beaucoup de bruit en roulant sur le pavé.
- 7Nom vernaculaire d’une espèce de cigale.
- 8Nom vernaculaire de divers oiseaux.
- 9Nom vernaculaire de quelques poissons telles les baudroies.
- 10Long manche en bois avec un embout métallique ou en plastique sur lequel repose la flèche d’une queue de billard lorsque la boule est éloignée. Aussi appelé râteau ou baguette râteau.
- 11Quinzième atout du tarot de Marseille.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daible,ddiable,diabble,diabel,diablle,dialbe,dibale,idable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diable
Misspelling Variants of "diable"
Frequency rank: #3,528 in French
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