diaphragme
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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diaphragme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.fʁaɡm\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #31,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Paroi musculaire large, mince, convexe et animée de mouvements rythmiques, située entre le thorax et l’abdomen.
- 2Cloison transversale qui partage une silique, une capsule.
- 3Écran muni d’une ouverture qui ne laisse passer que les rayons utiles.
- 4Élément d'un instrument optique permettant de régler l'intensité de la lumière passant à travers l'objectif.
- 5Divers organes des piles et bobines d’induction.
- 6Cloison percée d'un orifice calibré et placée dans une canalisation pour en modifier les conditions d'écoulement.
- 7Moyen 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
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Misspelling Variants of "diaphragme"
Frequency rank: #31,442 in French
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