diaconesse
\dja.kɔ.nɛs\
The verdict
“diaconesse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui, dans la primitive église, était employée à certains ministères ecclésiastiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diaconesse · diaconesse · French
diaconesse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diaconesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.kɔ.nɛs\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
diaconesse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.kɔ.nɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diaconesse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is diaconesse, spelled D-I-A-C-O-N-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui, dans la primitive église, était employée à certains ministères ecclésiastiques.
- 2Femme qui, dans certaines églises protestantes et sous l’autorité des pasteurs, se voue au soin des malades et des pauvres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diaconesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici donc comment le rôle de la diaconesse dans le baptême est décrit: En premier lieu, quand les femmes descendent dans l'eau, il est requis que celles qui descendent dans l'eau soient ointes par une diaconesse avec l'huile de l'onction.
Chère Annabel de linon blanc, entrant chaque jour, dès le matin, chez le pasteur, choisissant, avant d’y pénétrer, ses guimpes les plus simples, s’appliquant à rejeter en arrière ses belles boucles, à les tordre même en petites nattes austères, et n’arrivant pas, malgré ses efforts, à se donner le moins du monde l’air diaconesse.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.