dignité

/\di.ɲi.te\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,932

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

dignité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards. Pronounced \di.ɲi.te\. It ranks #4,932 in French word frequency. Often confused with divinité and digne.

Key facts for dignité
PropertyValue
Headworddignité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.ɲi.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,932
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dignité in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dignité is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.ɲi.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,932 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for dignité, with forms such as "ddignité", "dginité", and "diggnité". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "divinité", "digne", "digeste", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 dignité, spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards.
  2. 2
    Fait que la personne humaine ne doive jamais être traitée seulement comme un moyen, mais toujours aussi comme une fin en soi.
  3. 3
    Poste, grade éminent, charge ou office considérable.
  4. 4
    Fait qu'une planète soit valorisée par le lieu où elle est située dans un thème astral.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddignité,dginité,diggnité,diginté,dignite,dignitté,digniét,dignnité,digntié,dingité,idgnité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dignité

Misspelling Variants of "dignité"

ddignité8dginité7diggnité8diginté7dignite7dignitté8digniét7dignnité8
Misspelling Variants of "dignité"

Frequency rank: #4,932 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dignité"?
"dignité" is spelled D-I-G-N-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \di.ɲi.te\.
What does "dignité" mean?
As a noun, "dignité" means: Gravité noble qui inspire la considération, commande le respect, les égards.
What words are commonly confused with "dignité"?
"dignité" is commonly confused with "divinité", "digne", "digeste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dignité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dignité" is \di.ɲi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dignité" come from?
"dignité" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.