diptères
\dip.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“diptères” is uncommon French (frequency #62,918 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,918
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de diptère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dipteres · diptères · French
diptères · rank #62,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,918
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dimensionnelle
Nearest frequency peer: dimensionnelle (-2 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 « diptères »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- devancés
devancés
37,087 corpus weight
- dimensionne…
dimensionnelle
37,085 corpus weight
- diptères
diptères
37,083 corpus weight
- discrédite
discrédite
37,081 corpus weight
- dispatch
dispatch
37,080 corpus weight
- divisait
divisait
37,079 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diptères » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diptères |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dip.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diptères » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diptères is uncommon French at frequency #62,918 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dip.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de diptère.".
No misspelling variants are generated for diptères in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is diptères, spelled D-I-P-T-È-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de diptère.
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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