digamma
French, noun/di.ɡa.ma/
digamma is spelled D-I-G-A-M-M-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 55 million words in written French, the 234,192nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Digamma is a French masculine noun meaning “digamma (Greek letter)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does digamma mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedigamma (Greek letter)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom actuel d’une lettre grecque archaïque servant à noter le phonème \w\, remplacée par l’upsilon en grec moderne, mais dont est issue la lettre latine f.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of digamma
- digammas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce digamma?
- /di.ɡa.ma/
- \di.ɡa.ma\
- \di.ɡam.ma\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to digamma
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is digamma in French?
digamma appears about once in every 55 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).