dirhams
\di.ʁam\
The verdict
“dirhams” is uncommon French (frequency #51,411 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,411
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dirham.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirhams · dirhams · French
dirhams · rank #51,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,411
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH digressions
Nearest frequency peer: digressions (-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 « dirhams »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Diabaté
Diabaté
48,593 corpus weight
- diaboliser
diaboliser
48,592 corpus weight
- digressions
digressions
48,591 corpus weight
- dirhams
dirhams
48,590 corpus weight
- diss
diss
48,589 corpus weight
- distillée
distillée
48,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirhams » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirhams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.ʁam\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirhams » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirhams is uncommon French at frequency #51,411 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.ʁam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dirham.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dirhams in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dirhams, spelled D-I-R-H-A-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dirham.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirhams appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« On a eu pas mal d’annulations. Aujourd’hui, vous pouvez avoir une nuit pour 200 dirhams (20 euros) », glisse-t-il.
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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