direct
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,256
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
direct is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est droit, qui ne fait aucun détour. Pronounced \di.ʁɛkt\. It ranks #1,256 in French word frequency. Often confused with dirt and dires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | direct |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \di.ʁɛkt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for direct is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.ʁɛkt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,256 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for direct, with forms such as "ddirect", "dierct", and "dircet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dirt", "dires", "direz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 direct, spelled D-I-R-E-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est droit, qui ne fait aucun détour.
- 2Sans détour.
- 3Qui se fait sans intermédiaire ou sans étapes.
- 4En termes de sports,
- 5Immédiat, sans intermédiaire.
- 6En termes d’Astronomie,
- 7Relatif aux ascendants et des descendants, par opposition à collatéral.
- 8Ordonné, qui place le sujet, le verbe, l’attribut ou le complément dans l’ordre de la relation grammaticale.
- 9Relatif au ratio de la première à la seconde grandeur, dans l’ordre où on les énonce; par opposition à inverse, qui intervertit l’ordre suivi dans l’énoncé.
- 10Montant à partir de la basse. Il se dit par opposition à renversé.
- 11En trigonométrie : désigne le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddirect,dierct,dircet,direcct,directt,diretc,dirrect,driect,idrect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for direct
Misspelling Variants of "direct"
Frequency rank: #1,256 in French
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