diélectrique
\dje.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“diélectrique” is an uncommon French word, ranked #68,206 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #68,206
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui ne contient pas de charges électriques susceptibles de se déplacer de façon macroscopique ; qualifie un milieu qui ne peut pas conduire le courant électrique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diélectrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dje.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “diélectrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for diélectrique is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dje.lɛk.tʁik\. Corpus data places it at rank #68,206 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui ne contient pas de charges électriques susceptibles de se déplacer de façon macroscopique ; qualifie un milieu qui ne peut pas conduire le courant électrique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for diélectrique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is diélectrique, spelled D-I-É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui ne contient pas de charges électriques susceptibles de se déplacer de façon macroscopique ; qualifie un milieu qui ne peut pas conduire le courant électrique.
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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 “diélectrique”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-I-É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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