diatribes
\djat.ʁib\
The verdict
“diatribes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,197 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,197
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de diatribe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diatribes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djat.ʁib\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diatribes” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
diatribes is uncommon French at frequency #62,197 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \djat.ʁib\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de diatribe.".
diatribes has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is diatribes, spelled D-I-A-T-R-I-B-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de diatribe.
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 “diatribes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-A-T-R-I-B-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.