diktat
\dik.tat\
The verdict
“diktat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,419. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,419
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné par dénigrement, en Allemagne, à un ordre ou un traité imposé par la force.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diktat · diktat · French
diktat · rank #44,419 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #44,419
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH digestives
Nearest frequency peer: digestives (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « diktat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dice
dice
55,584 corpus weight
- digestives
digestives
55,583 corpus weight
- diktat
diktat
55,582 corpus weight
- Dinah
Dinah
55,581 corpus weight
- diplômées
diplômées
55,580 corpus weight
- display
display
55,579 corpus weight
What this shows « diktat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diktat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dik.tat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diktat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around diktat (IPA \dik.tat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,419 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for diktat, with forms such as "ddiktat", "dikatt", and "dikktat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "distant", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 diktat, spelled D-I-K-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Nom donné par dénigrement, en Allemagne, à un ordre ou un traité imposé par la force.
- 2Mesure imposée de façon autoritaire, dictée à l’interlocuteur, au partenaire d’un dialogue, sans qu’il puisse riposter, en raison d’une situation inégale.
- 3Pression psychologique insidieuse qui s’impose du fait de l'évolution des modes de vie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diktat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le diktat du PDG, revient à dire que c’est lui qui décide, sans en référer aux partenaires sociaux.
Gouverner par diktats, au lieu d’échanger des points de vue, caractéristique des régimes autoritaires.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiktat
- dikatt
- dikktat
- diktatt
- diktta
- dikttat
- ditkat
- dkitat
- idktat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diktat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "diktat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).