diaconat
\dja.kɔ.na\
The verdict
“diaconat” is uncommon French (frequency #73,073 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,073
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le premier des ordres sacrés, ou l’office de diacre, de l’Église catholique romaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diaconat · diaconat · French
diaconat · rank #73,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,073
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diaphane
Nearest frequency peer: diaphane (+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 « diaconat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- destituée
destituée
26,930 corpus weight
- diaconat
diaconat
26,928 corpus weight
- diaphane
diaphane
26,927 corpus weight
- dictatoriaux
dictatoriaux
26,926 corpus weight
- différait
différait
26,925 corpus weight
- diligentée
diligentée
26,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diaconat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diaconat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.kɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diaconat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diaconat is uncommon French at frequency #73,073 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.kɔ.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
diaconat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is diaconat, spelled D-I-A-C-O-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Le premier des ordres sacrés, ou l’office de diacre, de l’Église catholique romaine.
- 2Fonctions de diacre ou de diaconesse, chez les protestants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diaconat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche, pour que des femmes puissent accéder au diaconat (qui est le premier degré du sacrement de l’ordre, le deuxième étant la prêtrise et le troisième l’épiscopat), comme l’ont réclamé de nombreux Amazoniens lors des consultations préparatoires, il faudra sans doute encore attendre longtemps : les évêques se sont limités à renvoyer aux travaux d’u…
Mais la question très controversée du diaconat féminin a été laissée en suspens et les thèmes les plus sensibles ont été confiés à 10 groupes de travail qui doivent rendre leurs conclusions en juin.
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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