dipsomane
\dip.sɔ.man\
The verdict
“dipsomane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a un besoin maladif de boire des boissons toxiques (en particulier de l’alcool) lors de crises intermittentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dipsomane · dipsomane · French
dipsomane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dipsomane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dip.sɔ.man\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dipsomane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dip.sɔ.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a un besoin maladif de boire des boissons toxiques (en particulier de l’alcool) lors de crises intermittentes.".
dipsomane has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 dipsomane, spelled D-I-P-S-O-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a un besoin maladif de boire des boissons toxiques (en particulier de l’alcool) lors de crises intermittentes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.