dipôle
\di.pol\
The verdict
“dipôle” is uncommon French (frequency #93,680 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,680
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Structure à deux pôles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dipole · dipôle · French
dipôle · rank #93,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,680
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discriminants
Nearest frequency peer: discriminants (+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 « dipôle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- devenions
devenions
6,324 corpus weight
- Devereux
Devereux
6,323 corpus weight
- dipôle
dipôle
6,321 corpus weight
- discriminan…
discriminants
6,320 corpus weight
- dispensait
dispensait
6,319 corpus weight
- doan
doan
6,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dipôle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dipôle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.pol\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dipôle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dipôle is uncommon French at frequency #93,680 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.pol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dipôle, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dipôle, spelled D-I-P-Ô-L-E.
Definition
- 1Structure à deux pôles.
- 2Composant électrique à deux bornes.
- 3Modèle du comportement de deux charges magnétiques ou électriques opposées et infiniment proches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dipôle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une DEL est un dipôle.
Ainsi l’espacement des dipôles fixe le nombre de lobes de réseau réels. Le choix de la distance entre éléments est en général tel qu'il n'existe qu'un lobe principal.
Synonyms
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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