diminutive
\di.mi.ny.tiv\
The verdict
“diminutive” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de diminutif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diminutive · diminutive · French
diminutive · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diminutive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.mi.ny.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
diminutive is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.mi.ny.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de diminutif.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for diminutive in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is diminutive, spelled D-I-M-I-N-U-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de diminutif.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.