dioula
\dju.la\
The verdict
“dioula” is uncommon French (frequency #83,783 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,783
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au dioula, langue des Dioulas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dioula · dioula · French
dioula · rank #83,783 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,783
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dins
Nearest frequency peer: dins (-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 « dioula »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diabolisé
diabolisé
16,222 corpus weight
- diams
diams
16,221 corpus weight
- dins
dins
16,219 corpus weight
- dioula
dioula
16,218 corpus weight
- distal
distal
16,216 corpus weight
- distancier
distancier
16,215 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dioula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dioula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dju.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dioula » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dioula is uncommon French at frequency #83,783 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dju.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dioula doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dioula, spelled D-I-O-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Relatif au dioula, langue des Dioulas.
- 2Relatif aux Dioulas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dioula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois un colporteur dioula vient y étaler quelques bandes de tissus ou une douzaine de mouchoirs de tête d’importation.
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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