diminué
\di.mi.nɥe\
The verdict
“diminué” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,679
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a été rendu plus petit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diminue · diminué · French
diminué · rank #7,679 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,679
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dave
Nearest frequency peer: Dave (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “diminué”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- creuser
creuser
92,325 corpus weight
- dangereuses
dangereuses
92,324 corpus weight
- Dave
Dave
92,323 corpus weight
- diminué
diminué
92,322 corpus weight
- directive
directive
92,321 corpus weight
- disputer
disputer
92,320 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “diminué” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | diminué |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.mi.nɥe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “diminué” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around diminué (IPA \di.mi.nɥe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,679 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for diminué, with forms such as "ddiminué", "diimnué", and "diminnué". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "divine", "domine", "dominus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is diminué, spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a été rendu plus petit.
- 2En parlant d’une personne : dont les capacités, physiques ou intellectuelles, ont décliné.
- 3Se dit adjectivement, d’un intervalle mineur ou juste dont on retranche un demi-ton par un dièse à la note inférieure, ou par un bémol à la note supérieure.
- 4Désigne un accord composé d’une tierce mineure, d’une quinte diminuée et d’une septième diminuée ; il est constitué d’un empilement de tierces mineures.
- 5Minoré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diminué appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seconde diminuée.
Septième diminuée.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiminué
- diimnué
- diminnué
- diminue
- diminéu
- dimiuné
- dimminué
- dimniué
- dmiinué
- idminué
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diminué - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "diminué", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "diminué" maps to 8 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "divine". View pair
- 10 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #7,679 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "D" letter cohort. D–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.