diaphragme

/\dja.fʁaɡm\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#31,442

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

diaphragme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Paroi musculaire large, mince, convexe et animée de mouvements rythmiques, située entre le thorax et l’abdomen. Pronounced \dja.fʁaɡm\.

Key facts for diaphragme
PropertyValue
Headworddiaphragme
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dja.fʁaɡm\
Letters10
Frequency rank#31,442
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of diaphragme in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for diaphragme is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dja.fʁaɡm\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,442 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for diaphragme, with forms such as "daiphragme", "ddiaphragme", and "diahpragme". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 diaphragme, spelled D-I-A-P-H-R-A-G-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Paroi musculaire large, mince, convexe et animée de mouvements rythmiques, située entre le thorax et l’abdomen.
  2. 2
    Cloison transversale qui partage une silique, une capsule.
  3. 3
    Écran muni d’une ouverture qui ne laisse passer que les rayons utiles.
  4. 4
    Élément d'un instrument optique permettant de régler l'intensité de la lumière passant à travers l'objectif.
  5. 5
    Divers organes des piles et bobines d’induction.
  6. 6
    Cloison percée d'un orifice calibré et placée dans une canalisation pour en modifier les conditions d'écoulement.
  7. 7
    Moyen de contraception, capuchon de latex en forme de dôme, tendu par un anneau rigide et qui se place au fond du vagin devant le col de l’utérus.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: daiphragme,ddiaphragme,diahpragme,diaphargme,diaphhragme,diaphragem,diaphraggme,diaphragmme,diaphramge,diaphrgame,diaphrragme,diapphragme,diaprhagme,dipahragme,idaphragme

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diaphragme

Misspelling Variants of "diaphragme"

daiphragme10ddiaphragme11diahpragme10diaphargme10diaphhragme11diaphragem10diaphraggme11diaphragmme11
Misspelling Variants of "diaphragme"

Frequency rank: #31,442 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diaphragme"?
"diaphragme" is spelled D-I-A-P-H-R-A-G-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dja.fʁaɡm\.
What does "diaphragme" mean?
As a noun, "diaphragme" means: Paroi musculaire large, mince, convexe et animée de mouvements rythmiques, située entre le thorax et l’abdomen.
What are common misspellings of "diaphragme"?
Common misspellings include "daiphragme", "ddiaphragme", "diahpragme", "diaphargme", "diaphhragme". The correct spelling is "diaphragme".
How do you pronounce "diaphragme"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diaphragme" is \dja.fʁaɡm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diaphragme" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.