dictionnaires

\dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\

/\dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“dictionnaires” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,922. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,922
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dictionnaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dictionnaires · dictionnaires · French

dictionnaires · rank #17,922 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,922
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH digestif

Nearest frequency peer: digestif (+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 « dictionnaires »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dictionnaires » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dictionnaires vs dictionnaire
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dictionnaires
PropertyValue
Headworddictionnaires
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\
Letters13
Frequency rank#17,922
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dictionnaires »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dictionnairesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « digestif » (#17,923), « development » (#17,920), « dentaires » (#17,919). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dictionnaires » est au #17,922. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around dictionnaires (IPA \dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,922 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de dictionnaire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for dictionnaires, with forms such as "dcitionnaires", "ddictionnaires", and "dicctionnaires". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dictionnaire", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dictionnaires, spelled D-I-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de dictionnaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dictionnaires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Nous pouvons penser que (re)créer, élargir le sens aujourd’hui des mots exil, desexil, tout en créant le schème desexil de l’exil suppose de (re)considérer ces mots, ces concepts, non comme des définitions fixées dans des dictionnaires, des traditions, des institutions, des champs disciplinaires, des habitus, mais comme des processus de création de concep…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dcitionnaires
  • ddictionnaires
  • dicctionnaires
  • dicitonnaires
  • dictinonaires
  • dictionaires
  • dictionanires
  • dictionnaiers
  • dictionnairess
  • dictionnairres
  • dictionnairse
  • dictionnaries
  • dictionniares
  • dictoinnaires
  • dicttionnaires
  • ditcionnaires
  • idctionnaires

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dictionnaires - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

dcitionnaires2ddictionnaires1dicctionnaires1dicitonnaires2dictinonaires2dictionaires1dictionanires2dictionnaiers2
Edit distance from "dictionnaires"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dictionnaires"?
"dictionnaires" is spelled D-I-C-T-I-O-N-N-A-I-R-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\.
What does "dictionnaires" mean?
As a noun, "dictionnaires" means: Pluriel de dictionnaire.
What words are commonly confused with "dictionnaires"?
"dictionnaires" is commonly confused with "dictionnaire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dictionnaires"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dictionnaires" is \dik.sjɔ.nɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dictionnaires" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dictionnaires", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list