dire que
The verdict
“dire que” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a conjunction — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Locution employée absolument au début d’une proposition ne se rattachant pas à une autre, parfois précédée de la conjonction « et », cette locution exprime un regret.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dire que |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \diʁ kə\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dire que” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dire que is 8 letters long, classified as a conjunction, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \diʁ kə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Locution employée absolument au début d’une proposition ne se rattachant pas à une autre, parfois précédée de la conjonction « et », cette locution exprime un regret.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dire que in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 dire que, spelled D-I-R-E- -Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Locution employée absolument au début d’une proposition ne se rattachant pas à une autre, parfois précédée de la conjonction « et », cette locution exprime un regret.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-R-E- -Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \diʁ kə\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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