diatribes
\djat.ʁib\
The verdict
“diatribes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,197 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de diatribe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diatribes · diatribes · French
diatribes · rank #62,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,197
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dianne
Nearest frequency peer: Dianne (-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 « diatribes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- developer
developer
37,806 corpus weight
- Dianne
Dianne
37,805 corpus weight
- diatribes
diatribes
37,804 corpus weight
- diffamer
diffamer
37,803 corpus weight
- dirigeables
dirigeables
37,802 corpus weight
- discriminés
discriminés
37,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diatribes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « diatribes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diatribes is uncommon French at frequency #62,197 among 5,307 “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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