diary
The verdict
“diary” is uncommon French (frequency #55,875 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,875
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Journal intime.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diary” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
diary is uncommon French at frequency #55,875 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Journal intime.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for diary in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists 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 diary, spelled D-I-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Journal intime.
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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Using “diary”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-A-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.