diatribe
\dja.tʁib\
The verdict
“diatribe” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,824
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Critique amère et violente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diatribe · diatribe · French
diatribe · rank #42,824 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #42,824
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffamatoires
Nearest frequency peer: diffamatoires (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « diatribe »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- despotisme
despotisme
57,180 corpus weight
- DGCCRF
DGCCRF
57,179 corpus weight
- diatribe
diatribe
57,177 corpus weight
- diffamatoir…
diffamatoires
57,176 corpus weight
- différenciés
différenciés
57,175 corpus weight
- différée
différée
57,174 corpus weight
What this shows « diatribe » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diatribe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dja.tʁib\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #42,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diatribe »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around diatribe (IPA \dja.tʁib\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,824 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for diatribe, with forms such as "daitribe", "ddiatribe", and "diartibe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "distribue", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 diatribe, spelled D-I-A-T-R-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1Critique amère et violente.
- 2Discours ou écrit violent et injurieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diatribe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans ses diatribes contre la gestion québécoise de la COVID, on perçoit chez M. Attaran une sorte d’« essentialisation » des Québécois.
À beau mentir qui vient de loin. Le vieil adage hypothèquera pendant longtemps la postérité de la relation de voyage, comme le rappelle la célèbre boutade de Rousseau dans la note X du Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité (1755), qui provoquera comme on le sait la diatribe de Bougainville contre les philosophes de cabinet.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- daitribe
- ddiatribe
- diartibe
- diatirbe
- diatrbie
- diatribbe
- diatrieb
- diatrribe
- diattribe
- ditaribe
- idatribe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diatribe - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
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