dijonnaise
\di.ʒɔ.nɛz\
The verdict
“dijonnaise” is uncommon French (frequency #77,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,421
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dijonnais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dijonnaise · dijonnaise · French
dijonnaise · rank #77,421 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,421
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devinait
Nearest frequency peer: devinait (-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 « dijonnaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Devillers
Devillers
22,582 corpus weight
- devinait
devinait
22,581 corpus weight
- dijonnaise
dijonnaise
22,580 corpus weight
- Dirac
Dirac
22,579 corpus weight
- disjoncter
disjoncter
22,578 corpus weight
- distillés
distillés
22,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dijonnaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dijonnaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʒɔ.nɛz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,421 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dijonnaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dijonnaise is uncommon French at frequency #77,421 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.ʒɔ.nɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de dijonnais.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dijonnaise, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dijonnaise, spelled D-I-J-O-N-N-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dijonnais.
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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