dîme
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,076
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dîme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Portion des grains, des vins, des fruits, etc., qui se payait à l’église, ou au seigneur du lieu, et qui en était ordinairement le dixième. Pronounced \dim\. Often confused with dm and dix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dîme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dim\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dîme is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dim\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,076 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for dîme, with forms such as "ddîme", "dime", and "dmîe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dm", "dix", "due", and more, 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 dîme, spelled D-Î-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Portion des grains, des vins, des fruits, etc., qui se payait à l’église, ou au seigneur du lieu, et qui en était ordinairement le dixième.
- 2Prélèvement qui se faisait sur les Juifs du dixième des fruits de la terre pour offrir au Seigneur ou pour donner aux lévites.
- 3Nom d’une petite monnaie.
- 4Gratification, prélèvement selon un pourcentage déterminé.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddîme,dime,dmîe,dîem,dîmme,îdme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dîme
Misspelling Variants of "dîme"
Frequency rank: #34,076 in French
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