diacre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#22,540
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
diacre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celui qui, dans l’Église catholique romaine, l’Église catholique-chrétienne ou dans l’Église copte, est promu au premier des ordres sacrés. Pronounced \djakʁ\. Often confused with dire and dice.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diacre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djakʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diacre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \djakʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,540 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for diacre, with forms such as "daicre", "ddiacre", and "diaccre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dire", "dice", "diane", 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 diacre, spelled D-I-A-C-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celui qui, dans l’Église catholique romaine, l’Église catholique-chrétienne ou dans l’Église copte, est promu au premier des ordres sacrés.
- 2Celui qui, dans le culte protestant, est chargé de recueillir et de distribuer les aumônes.
- 3Il s’est dit, aux premiers temps de l’église, des Chrétiens choisis, au nombre de sept, par l’assemblée des fidèles, avec la consécration des apôtres, pour vaquer à la distribution des aumônes.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daicre,ddiacre,diaccre,diacer,diacrre,diarce,dicare,idacre
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Misspelling Variants of "diacre"
Frequency rank: #22,540 in French
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