diatonique
\dja.tɔ.nik\
The verdict
“diatonique” is uncommon French (frequency #72,241 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,241
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui procède par les tons naturels de la gamme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diatonique · diatonique · French
diatonique · rank #72,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,241
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Deanna
Nearest frequency peer: Deanna (-3 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 « diatonique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- daller
daller
27,766 corpus weight
- damner
damner
27,765 corpus weight
- Deanna
Deanna
27,763 corpus weight
- diatonique
diatonique
27,760 corpus weight
- disqualifiés
disqualifiés
27,757 corpus weight
- Djeddah
Djeddah
27,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diatonique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diatonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dja.tɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #72,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diatonique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diatonique is uncommon French at frequency #72,241 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dja.tɔ.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui procède par les tons naturels de la gamme.".
diatonique has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is diatonique, spelled D-I-A-T-O-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui procède par les tons naturels de la gamme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diatonique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’échelle diatonique est la gamme de sept sons do, ré, mi, fa, sol, la, si.
Les sept notes de la gamme sont séparées entre elles par des intervalles qu’on appelle tons et demi-tons diatoniques.
Antonyms
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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