diphtongue
\dif.tɔ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“diphtongue” is uncommon French (frequency #92,627 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,627
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voyelle complexe qui change de timbre en cours d’émission.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diphtongue · diphtongue · French
diphtongue · rank #92,627 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,627
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discriminée
Nearest frequency peer: discriminée (+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 « diphtongue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dimensionne…
dimensionnelles
7,377 corpus weight
- dimi
dimi
7,376 corpus weight
- diphtongue
diphtongue
7,374 corpus weight
- discriminée
discriminée
7,373 corpus weight
- disposais
disposais
7,372 corpus weight
- dissipateur
dissipateur
7,371 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diphtongue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diphtongue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dif.tɔ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diphtongue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diphtongue is uncommon French at frequency #92,627 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dif.tɔ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Voyelle complexe qui change de timbre en cours d’émission.".
Zero misspellings are on record for diphtongue in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is diphtongue, spelled D-I-P-H-T-O-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Voyelle complexe qui change de timbre en cours d’émission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diphtongue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot anglais eight contient la diphtongue [ei].
Le français québécois possède des diphtongues ; par exemple, le mot seize se prononce [saɛ̯z].
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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