diapo
\dja.po\
The verdict
“diapo” is uncommon French (frequency #54,524 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,524
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cadre en plastique ou en carton qui contient un morceau de film inversible montrant une photographie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diapo · diapo · French
diapo · rank #54,524 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,524
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH deviendrez
Nearest frequency peer: deviendrez (-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 « diapo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- denon
denon
45,480 corpus weight
- deuils
deuils
45,479 corpus weight
- deviendrez
deviendrez
45,478 corpus weight
- diapo
diapo
45,477 corpus weight
- Diaw
Diaw
45,476 corpus weight
- dilue
dilue
45,475 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diapo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diapo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.po\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,524 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diapo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diapo is uncommon French at frequency #54,524 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
diapo has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is diapo, spelled D-I-A-P-O.
Definition
- 1Cadre en plastique ou en carton qui contient un morceau de film inversible montrant une photographie.
- 2Support visuel, fixe ou animé, utilisé comme unité de travail de logiciels de présentation pour la constitution de diaporamas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diapo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette fiche mentionne également si la diapo est un original ou un duplicata, ainsi que les modalités de prêt.
Bien peu de jours s'étaient passés entre mon refus de l'agrégation et la fulgurante révélation que fut ce visionnage des diapos du pays bamiléké.
Synonyms
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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