dien
\diːn\
The verdict
“dien” is uncommon French (frequency #50,165 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,165
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dienen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dien · dien · French
dien · rank #50,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,165
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Didon
Nearest frequency peer: Didon (-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 « dien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- destinait
destinait
49,839 corpus weight
- dictons
dictons
49,838 corpus weight
- Didon
Didon
49,837 corpus weight
- dien
dien
49,836 corpus weight
- diligences
diligences
49,835 corpus weight
- disparaissa…
disparaissant
49,834 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \diːn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dien is uncommon French at frequency #50,165 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \diːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dien in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 dien, spelled D-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif présent de dienen.
- 2Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dienen.
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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