diabolo
\dja.bɔ.lo\
The verdict
“diabolo” is uncommon French (frequency #53,893 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,893
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument de jonglerie ressemblant à deux cônes reliés à leur extrémité la plus fine par un axe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diabolo · diabolo · French
diabolo · rank #53,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,893
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Demba
Nearest frequency peer: Demba (-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 « diabolo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Delattre
Delattre
46,111 corpus weight
- Demba
Demba
46,109 corpus weight
- diabolo
diabolo
46,108 corpus weight
- diminutions
diminutions
46,107 corpus weight
- dip
dip
46,106 corpus weight
- dissipés
dissipés
46,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diabolo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diabolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.bɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diabolo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diabolo is uncommon French at frequency #53,893 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.bɔ.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for diabolo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 diabolo, spelled D-I-A-B-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Instrument de jonglerie ressemblant à deux cônes reliés à leur extrémité la plus fine par un axe.
- 2Boisson à base de sirop additionné de limonade.
- 3En ORL, aérateur trans-tympanique, ou yoyo.
- 4Petite balle de plomb utilisée dans les pistolets ou fusils à air comprimé.
- 5Pièce fixée de chaque coté du bras oscillant, permettant de soulever, à l’aide d’une béquille spéciale, et de la maintenir surélevée et stable, la partie arrière de la moto, pour des opérations de maintenance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diabolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jongleur tient deux baguettes reliées par une ficelle sur laquelle roule le diabolo.
A propos de Bertin, le Secrétaire Général dit que le Journal des Débats, du 29 juin, lui attribue l’introduction en France, vers 1776, d’un jeu qui a en ce moment à Paris une grande vogue, le diabolo auquel on joue dans tous les jardins publics.
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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