dimorphisme
\di.mɔʁ.fism\
The verdict
“dimorphisme” is uncommon French (frequency #55,197 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,197
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Existence de deux formes distinctes pour une même espèce animale ou végétale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dimorphisme · dimorphisme · French
dimorphisme · rank #55,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,197
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH digression
Nearest frequency peer: digression (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dimorphisme »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- deviendras
deviendras
44,808 corpus weight
- digression
digression
44,805 corpus weight
- dimorphisme
dimorphisme
44,804 corpus weight
- dinh
dinh
44,803 corpus weight
- dinos
dinos
44,802 corpus weight
- disputeront
disputeront
44,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dimorphisme » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dimorphisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.mɔʁ.fism\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #55,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dimorphisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dimorphisme is uncommon French at frequency #55,197 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.mɔʁ.fism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dimorphisme, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dimorphisme, spelled D-I-M-O-R-P-H-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Existence de deux formes distinctes pour une même espèce animale ou végétale.
- 2Possibilité pour une substance de se cristalliser sous deux aspects différents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dimorphisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les abeilles femelles présentent un dimorphisme entre la classe des ouvrières et celle des reines.
Dimorphisme sexuel, ensemble des caractères qui distinguent le mâle de la femelle dans une même espèce animale.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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