diatomées

\dja.tɔ.me\

/\dja.tɔ.me\/ noun

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The verdict

“diatomées” is uncommon French (frequency #73,898 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,898
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de diatomée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-diatomees · diatomées · French

diatomées · rank #73,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,898
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH diablesse

Nearest frequency peer: diablesse (-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 « diatomées »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diatomées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for diatomées
PropertyValue
Headworddiatomées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dja.tɔ.me\
Letters9
Frequency rank#73,898
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « diatomées » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.diatoméestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « diablesse » (#73,897), « discréditée » (#73,899), « deviendrons » (#73,896). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « diatomées » est au #73,898. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

diatomées is uncommon French at frequency #73,898 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dja.tɔ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de diatomée.".

diatomées doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is diatomées, spelled D-I-A-T-O-M-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de diatomée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how diatomées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les microspatules, faites à l’aide d’écailles de papillon ou de diatomées, peuvent également servir d’instrument de contention.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diatomées"?
"diatomées" is spelled D-I-A-T-O-M-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dja.tɔ.me\.
What does "diatomées" mean?
As a noun, "diatomées" means: Pluriel de diatomée.
How do you pronounce "diatomées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diatomées" is \dja.tɔ.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diatomées" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "diatomées", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

diablesse#73,897débilités#73,913découlait#73,917dédommage#73,919

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list