dinosaure

/\di.no.zɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,593

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

dinosaure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre d'un super-ordre d’archosaures qui a connu son apogée durant le Mésozoïque (ou ère secondaire), dont les représentants actuels sont les oiseaux et comprenant tous les descendants du plus réc... Pronounced \di.no.zɔʁ\. Often confused with dinosaures.

Key facts for dinosaure
PropertyValue
Headworddinosaure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.no.zɔʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,593
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of dinosaure in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for dinosaure is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.no.zɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,593 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 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for dinosaure, with forms such as "ddinosaure", "dinnosaure", and "dinoasure". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dinosaures", 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 dinosaure, spelled D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre d'un super-ordre d’archosaures qui a connu son apogée durant le Mésozoïque (ou ère secondaire), dont les représentants actuels sont les oiseaux et comprenant tous les descendants du plus récent ancêtre commun du tricératops et des oiseaux modernes.
  2. 2
    Personne en place depuis très longtemps.
  3. 3
    Individu ou entreprise autrefois influent dépassé par la modernité.
  4. 4
    Appareil déjà très ancien en regard du monde moderne.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddinosaure,dinnosaure,dinoasure,dinosarue,dinosauer,dinosaurre,dinossaure,dinosuare,dinsoaure,dionsaure,dniosaure,idnosaure

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dinosaure

Misspelling Variants of "dinosaure"

ddinosaure10dinnosaure10dinoasure9dinosarue9dinosauer9dinosaurre10dinossaure10dinosuare9
Misspelling Variants of "dinosaure"

Frequency rank: #16,593 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dinosaure"?
"dinosaure" is spelled D-I-N-O-S-A-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.no.zɔʁ\.
What does "dinosaure" mean?
As a noun, "dinosaure" means: Membre d'un super-ordre d’archosaures qui a connu son apogée durant le Mésozoïque (ou ère secondaire), dont les représentants actuels sont les oiseaux et comprenant tous les descendants du plus réc...
What words are commonly confused with "dinosaure"?
"dinosaure" is commonly confused with "dinosaures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dinosaure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dinosaure" is \di.no.zɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dinosaure" come from?
"dinosaure" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.