diplomate
\di.plɔ.mat\
The verdict
“diplomate” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,139. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,139
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonctionnaire qui est de la carrière diplomatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diplomate · diplomate · French
diplomate · rank #10,139 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,139
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH demanda
Nearest frequency peer: demanda (-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 « diplomate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- céramique
céramique
89,865 corpus weight
- cérébrale
cérébrale
89,864 corpus weight
- demanda
demanda
89,863 corpus weight
- diplomate
diplomate
89,862 corpus weight
- dresser
dresser
89,861 corpus weight
- décidée
décidée
89,859 corpus weight
What this shows « diplomate » 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 | diplomate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.plɔ.mat\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « diplomate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around diplomate (IPA \di.plɔ.mat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,139 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for diplomate, with forms such as "ddiplomate", "dilpomate", and "dipllomate". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "diplômé", "diplômée", "diplomatie", 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is diplomate, spelled D-I-P-L-O-M-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fonctionnaire qui est de la carrière diplomatique.
- 2Celui qui sait mener une affaire avec tact et habileté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diplomate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’y a que les hommes forts, grands et colères, de ces foudres de guerre, de ces diplomates à tête olympienne, de ces hommes de génie, pour avoir ces partis pris de confiance, cette générosité pour la faiblesse, cette constante protection, cet amour sans jalousie, cette bonhomie avec la femme.
Vous voulez rire de moi, dit-il à la diplomate, qui se demandait si au moins elle aurait le temps d'aller jouer un neuf trous avant que le soleil tombe.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiplomate
- dilpomate
- dipllomate
- diplmoate
- diploamte
- diplomaet
- diplomatte
- diplommate
- diplomtae
- dipolmate
- dipplomate
- dpilomate
- idplomate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of diplomate - 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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