diaphane
\dja.fan\
The verdict
“diaphane” is uncommon French (frequency #73,074 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,074
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui laisse passer à travers soi les rayons lumineux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diaphane · diaphane · French
diaphane · rank #73,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,074
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diaconat
Nearest frequency peer: diaconat (-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 « diaphane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- destituée
destituée
26,930 corpus weight
- diaconat
diaconat
26,928 corpus weight
- diaphane
diaphane
26,927 corpus weight
- dictatoriaux
dictatoriaux
26,926 corpus weight
- différait
différait
26,925 corpus weight
- diligentée
diligentée
26,924 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diaphane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diaphane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dja.fan\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diaphane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diaphane is uncommon French at frequency #73,074 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dja.fan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
diaphane doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is diaphane, spelled D-I-A-P-H-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui laisse passer à travers soi les rayons lumineux.
- 2Qui laisse passer la lumière sans que les objets soient discernables.
- 3Transparent.
- 4D’apparence fragile et délicat en parlant du physique d'une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diaphane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’air est plus diaphane que l’eau.
Aucune falaise, […], n’aurait pu donner une idée de cette banquise, opaque en un endroit, diaphane en un autre, et sur laquelle la lumière et l’ombre produisaient les jeux les plus étonnants.
Antonyms
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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