diapositive
\dja.po.zi.tiv\
The verdict
“diapositive” is uncommon French (frequency #85,636 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,636
- 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-diapositive · diapositive · French
diapositive · rank #85,636 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,636
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DFS
Nearest frequency peer: DFS (-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 « diapositive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dessinera
dessinera
14,368 corpus weight
- deutsches
deutsches
14,367 corpus weight
- DFS
DFS
14,366 corpus weight
- diapositive
diapositive
14,365 corpus weight
- difformité
difformité
14,364 corpus weight
- dilatent
dilatent
14,363 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diapositive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diapositive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.po.zi.tiv\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diapositive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diapositive is uncommon French at frequency #85,636 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.po.zi.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for diapositive, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is diapositive, spelled D-I-A-P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Cadre en plastique ou en carton qui contient un morceau de film inversible montrant une photographie.
- 2Page d'une présentation assistée par ordinateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diapositive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un projecteur de diapositives.
L’intérêt a été très vif chez la plupart des élèves devant la diapositive et le film.
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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