dimanche
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#768
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
dimanche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Septième ^([1]) jour de la semaine. Suit le samedi et précède le lundi. Pronounced \di.mɑ̃ʃ\. It ranks #768 in French word frequency. Often confused with dimanches and démarche.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dimanche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.mɑ̃ʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dimanche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.mɑ̃ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #768 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dimanche, with forms such as "ddimanche", "diamnche", and "dimacnhe". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "dimanches", "démarche", 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 dimanche, spelled D-I-M-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Septième ^([1]) jour de la semaine. Suit le samedi et précède le lundi.
- 2Ce jour en tant que jour saint de la semaine.
- 3Ce jour comme seul jour de la semaine où l’on peut profiter d’un privilège, d’un plaisir particulier.
- 4Ce jour comme jour de repos ou de congé de la semaine.
- 5Somme d’argent que l’on donne généralement à un enfant le dimanche.
- 6Défaut ou absence d’application de peinture, de goudron, par exemple sur une coque de navire.
- 7Vêtements portés le dimanche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddimanche,diamnche,dimacnhe,dimancche,dimanceh,dimanchhe,dimanhce,dimannche,dimmanche,dimnache,dmianche,idmanche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dimanche"
Frequency rank: #768 in French
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