didascalie
\di.da.ska.li\
The verdict
“didascalie” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Instruction que le poète dramatique donnait aux acteurs sur la manière dont ils devaient jouer ses pièces.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | didascalie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.da.ska.li\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “didascalie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for didascalie is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.da.ska.li\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
didascalie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is didascalie, spelled D-I-D-A-S-C-A-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Instruction que le poète dramatique donnait aux acteurs sur la manière dont ils devaient jouer ses pièces.
- 2Documents grecs sur les pièces jouées, l’époque de leur représentation, etc.
- 3Courte notice placée en tête des pièces de théâtre.
- 4Dans les dialogues d’une pièce de théâtre ou d’un film, notes de l’auteur ne faisant pas partie de ce dialogue, donnant aux acteurs et aux metteurs en scène des indications sur le jeu, les personnages, les déplacements.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “didascalie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-D-A-S-C-A-L-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \di.da.ska.li\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.