diplomatie

/\di.plɔ.ma.si\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,096

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

diplomatie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Connaissance des traditions qui règlent les rapports mutuels des États, art de concilier leurs intérêts respectifs. Pronounced \di.plɔ.ma.si\. It ranks #8,096 in French word frequency. Often confused with diplomatique and diplomate.

Key facts for diplomatie
PropertyValue
Headworddiplomatie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.plɔ.ma.si\
Letters10
Frequency rank#8,096
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of diplomatie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for diplomatie is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.plɔ.ma.si\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,096 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for diplomatie, with forms such as "ddiplomatie", "dilpomatie", and "dipllomatie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "diplomatique", "diplomate", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is diplomatie, spelled D-I-P-L-O-M-A-T-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Connaissance des traditions qui règlent les rapports mutuels des États, art de concilier leurs intérêts respectifs.
  2. 2
    Ces rapports mêmes.
  3. 3
    Carrière diplomatique.
  4. 4
    Tact, prudence.
  5. 5
    Adresse, ruse, habileté.
  6. 6
    Étude des chartes, diplômes et autres documents officiels. Elle s’intéresse à leur classification, leur valeur, leur âge et leur authenticité. Elle est souvent considérée, avec la paléographie ou l’archivistique, comme une discipline auxiliaire de l’histoire.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddiplomatie,dilpomatie,dipllomatie,diplmoatie,diploamtie,diplomaite,diplomatei,diplomattie,diplommatie,diplomtaie,dipolmatie,dipplomatie,dpilomatie,idplomatie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for diplomatie

Misspelling Variants of "diplomatie"

ddiplomatie11dilpomatie10dipllomatie11diplmoatie10diploamtie10diplomaite10diplomatei10diplomattie11
Misspelling Variants of "diplomatie"

Frequency rank: #8,096 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "diplomatie"?
"diplomatie" is spelled D-I-P-L-O-M-A-T-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.plɔ.ma.si\.
What does "diplomatie" mean?
As a noun, "diplomatie" means: Connaissance des traditions qui règlent les rapports mutuels des États, art de concilier leurs intérêts respectifs.
What words are commonly confused with "diplomatie"?
"diplomatie" is commonly confused with "diplomatique", "diplomate". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "diplomatie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "diplomatie" is \di.plɔ.ma.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "diplomatie" come from?
"diplomatie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Nearby French words

Other entries that begin with the letter D in our French index:

Explore PlainSpell

Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.