diode
\djɔd\
The verdict
“diode” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,698. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,698
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composant électronique qui ne laisse passer le courant électrique que dans un sens (sauf pour la diode Zener).
Corpus desk
Index FR-diode · diode · French
diode · rank #46,698 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,698
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dindons
Nearest frequency peer: dindons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « diode »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dictent
dictent
53,306 corpus weight
- différencié…
différenciées
53,305 corpus weight
- dindons
dindons
53,304 corpus weight
- diode
diode
53,303 corpus weight
- diptyque
diptyque
53,302 corpus weight
- directory
directory
53,301 corpus weight
What this shows « diode » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | diode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \djɔd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diode »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around diode (IPA \djɔd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,698 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composant électronique qui ne laisse passer le courant électrique que dans un sens (sauf pour la diode Zener).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for diode, with forms such as "ddiode", "didoe", and "diodde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "doe", "dire", "dite", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is diode, spelled D-I-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Composant électronique qui ne laisse passer le courant électrique que dans un sens (sauf pour la diode Zener).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how diode appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des diodes de puissance au silicium de ce type connectées en opposition pour former un écrêteur symétrique, ont pu rendre de sécurité des circuits, contenant des inductances atteignant 330 mH, dans lesquelles circulaient des courants de 3.2 A efficaces sous des tensions allant jusqu'à 75 V efficaces.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiode
- didoe
- diodde
- dioed
- doide
- idode
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diode - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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