Dirac
\di.ʁak\
The verdict
“Dirac” is uncommon French (frequency #77,422 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,422
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de dirac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirac · Dirac · French
Dirac · rank #77,422 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,422
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dijonnaise
Nearest frequency peer: dijonnaise (-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 « Dirac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Devillers
Devillers
22,582 corpus weight
- devinait
devinait
22,581 corpus weight
- dijonnaise
dijonnaise
22,580 corpus weight
- Dirac
Dirac
22,579 corpus weight
- disjoncter
disjoncter
22,578 corpus weight
- distillés
distillés
22,577 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dirac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dirac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dirac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dirac is uncommon French at frequency #77,422 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.ʁak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de dirac.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Dirac in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Dirac, spelled D-I-R-A-C.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de dirac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dirac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le point de vue bayésien permet aussi de mieux examiner les modèles non identifiés : la loi a posteriori va dégénérer asymptotiquement en une Dirac sur les paramètres identifiés alors que, conditionnellement aux paramètres identifiés, la loi a posteriori, sur les paramètres identifiés va demeurer identique à l’a priori.
Synonyms
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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