dictionary
\ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi\
The verdict
“dictionary” is uncommon French (frequency #52,004 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,004
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dictionnaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dictionary · dictionary · French
dictionary · rank #52,004 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,004
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diagne
Nearest frequency peer: Diagne (-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 « dictionary »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deutéronome
deutéronome
48,000 corpus weight
- devancée
devancée
47,999 corpus weight
- Diagne
Diagne
47,998 corpus weight
- dictionary
dictionary
47,997 corpus weight
- Dimitrov
Dimitrov
47,996 corpus weight
- discutais
discutais
47,995 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dictionary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dictionary |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,004 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dictionary » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dictionary is uncommon French at frequency #52,004 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dictionnaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dictionary, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dictionary, spelled D-I-C-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Dictionnaire.
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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