diagonal
\dja.ɡɔ.nal\
The verdict
“diagonal” is uncommon French (frequency #59,944 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,944
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui va d’un angle d’une figure rectiligne à l’angle opposé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diagonal · diagonal · French
diagonal · rank #59,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,944
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DGAC
Nearest frequency peer: DGAC (-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 « diagonal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- descriptives
descriptives
40,061 corpus weight
- desigual
desigual
40,060 corpus weight
- DGAC
DGAC
40,058 corpus weight
- diagonal
diagonal
40,057 corpus weight
- diapos
diapos
40,056 corpus weight
- diario
diario
40,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diagonal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diagonal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dja.ɡɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diagonal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diagonal is uncommon French at frequency #59,944 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dja.ɡɔ.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diagonal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is diagonal, spelled D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui va d’un angle d’une figure rectiligne à l’angle opposé.
- 2Transversal, oblique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diagonal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
la ligne diagonale.
Des plis diagonaux sillonnaient le peu qu'on voyait de son corps à travers le tissu léger.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).