dinar
\di.naʁ\
The verdict
“dinar” is uncommon French (frequency #60,705 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,705
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Monnaie d’or arabe copiée à partir du denier d’or de l’empire romain d’orient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dinar · dinar · French
dinar · rank #60,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,705
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissonances
Nearest frequency peer: dissonances (+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 « dinar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dic
dic
39,299 corpus weight
- dilapider
dilapider
39,298 corpus weight
- dinar
dinar
39,296 corpus weight
- dissonances
dissonances
39,295 corpus weight
- distale
distale
39,294 corpus weight
- divorcées
divorcées
39,293 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dinar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dinar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.naʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dinar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dinar is uncommon French at frequency #60,705 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.naʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dinar, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dinar, spelled D-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Monnaie d’or arabe copiée à partir du denier d’or de l’empire romain d’orient.
- 2Monnaie de divers pays.
- 3Centième partie du rial, en Iran.
- 4Ancienne unité de masse en usage dans divers pays arabe et qui équivalait à une drachme et demi, soit approximativement 5,8 grammes.
- 5, Argent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dinar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dinar algérien.
Place des Changeurs, voyageurs et marchands de toutes origines, andalous, grecs ou chinois, s’affairent autour des vérificateurs de monnaies qui, dignement munis de leur balance réglementaire, grattent un dinar, de Kirman, de Nichapour ou de Séville, reniflent la tanka de Delhi, soupèsent un dirham de Bouk, font la moue devant un maigre nomisma de Constan…
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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