Diogène
\djɔ.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“Diogène” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,748
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Philosophe grec de l'Antiquité et le plus célèbre représentant de l'école cynique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diogene · Diogène · French
Diogène · rank #39,748 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,748
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diminuera
Nearest frequency peer: diminuera (-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 « Diogène »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diffusait
diffusait
60,256 corpus weight
- différencie…
différencient
60,255 corpus weight
- diminuera
diminuera
60,254 corpus weight
- Diogène
Diogène
60,253 corpus weight
- dissuasif
dissuasif
60,252 corpus weight
- doing
doing
60,250 corpus weight
What this shows « Diogène » 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 | Diogène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \djɔ.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Diogène »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Diogène (IPA \djɔ.ʒɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #39,748 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Philosophe grec de l'Antiquité et le plus célèbre représentant de l'école cynique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Diogène, with forms such as "ddiogène", "digoène", and "diogene". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Dionne", "digne", "digère", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Diogène, spelled D-I-O-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Philosophe grec de l'Antiquité et le plus célèbre représentant de l'école cynique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Diogène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au cuit consensuel de l’institution nutritive, Diogène oppose le nihilisme alimentaire le plus échevelé marqué, en priorité, par le refus du feu, de Prométhée comme symbole de la civilisation.
Diogène prouvant l’existence du mouvement en marchant semble l’idéal du sens commun et a tous les rieurs pour lui.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiogène
- digoène
- diogene
- dioggène
- diognèe
- diogèen
- diogènne
- dioègne
- doigène
- idogène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Diogène - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).