diacritique
Letters
11 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
diacritique is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui sert à distinguer plusieurs lettres écrites presque de la même façon, en parlant des signes graphiques qui ont par exemple pour but d’empêcher, pour les yeux, la confusion des mots ayant le mêm... Pronounced \dja.kʁi.tik\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diacritique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dja.kʁi.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diacritique is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dja.kʁi.tik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for diacritique in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 diacritique, spelled D-I-A-C-R-I-T-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui sert à distinguer plusieurs lettres écrites presque de la même façon, en parlant des signes graphiques qui ont par exemple pour but d’empêcher, pour les yeux, la confusion des mots ayant le même son, comme par exemple l’accent grave placé sur À, sur là et où.
- 2Dans les langues à abjad, signes graphiques complémentaires aux consonnes, qui permettent notamment de transcrire les voyelles.
- 3En cantillation hébraïque, graphèmes indiquant la prononciation correcte des versets de la Bible hébraïque.
- 4Qualifie les symptômes spéciaux et distinctifs d’une maladie.
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