dilemme
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,153
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
dilemme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte d’argument qui contient deux ou plusieurs propositions différentes ou contraires, dont on laisse le choix à l’adversaire, pour le convaincre également, quelle que soit celle qu’il adopte. Pronounced \di.lɛm\. Often confused with dilemmes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dilemme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.lɛm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dilemme is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.lɛm\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,153 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for dilemme, with forms such as "ddilemme", "dielmme", and "dileme". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dilemmes", 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 dilemme, spelled D-I-L-E-M-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte d’argument qui contient deux ou plusieurs propositions différentes ou contraires, dont on laisse le choix à l’adversaire, pour le convaincre également, quelle que soit celle qu’il adopte.
- 2Choix difficile ou cornélien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddilemme,dielmme,dileme,dilemem,dillemme,dilmeme,dliemme,idlemme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dilemme
Misspelling Variants of "dilemme"
Frequency rank: #13,153 in French
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