diary
The verdict
“diary” is uncommon French (frequency #55,875 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,875
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Journal intime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diary · diary · French
diary · rank #55,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,875
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devi
Nearest frequency peer: devi (-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 « diary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- devi
devi
44,127 corpus weight
- diary
diary
44,126 corpus weight
- discutes
discutes
44,124 corpus weight
- disproporti…
disproportionnés
44,123 corpus weight
- distrayant
distrayant
44,122 corpus weight
- diurétique
diurétique
44,121 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « diary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diary is uncommon French at frequency #55,875 among 5,307 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diary appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They kept separate diaries. His was on paper and her diary was on her computer's hard drive.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).