diamètre
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,418
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
diamètre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ligne droite qui va d’un point de la circonférence d’un cercle (ou d’une sphère) à un autre point en passant par le centre. Le diamètre représente deux fois le rayon. Pronounced \dja.mɛtʁ\. It ranks #4,418 in French word frequency. Often confused with diantre and diamètres.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diamètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.mɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diamètre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dja.mɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,418 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for diamètre, with forms such as "daimètre", "ddiamètre", and "diametre". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "diantre", "diamètres", "diabète", 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 diamètre, spelled D-I-A-M-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ligne droite qui va d’un point de la circonférence d’un cercle (ou d’une sphère) à un autre point en passant par le centre. Le diamètre représente deux fois le rayon.
- 2Deux notions distinctes.
- 3Deux notions distinctes.
- 4Deux notions distinctes.
- 5Plus grande largeur ou grosseur d’une chose ronde, arrondie, elliptique, etc.
- 6Diamètre du tronc d’un arbre mesuré à hauteur de poitrine — souvent à 1.30 m du sol comme en France, parfois à 1.50 m.
- 7Classe de diamètre ; arbre appartenant à une classe de diamètre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: daimètre,ddiamètre,diametre,diammètre,diamtère,diamèrte,diamèter,diamètrre,diamèttre,diaèmtre,dimaètre,idamètre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "diamètre"
Frequency rank: #4,418 in French
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Nearby French words
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