dirigeables
\di.ʁi.ʒabl\
The verdict
“dirigeables” is uncommon French (frequency #62,199 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,199
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dirigeable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigeables · dirigeables · French
dirigeables · rank #62,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,199
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diffamer
Nearest frequency peer: diffamer (-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 « dirigeables »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dianne
Dianne
37,805 corpus weight
- diatribes
diatribes
37,804 corpus weight
- diffamer
diffamer
37,803 corpus weight
- dirigeables
dirigeables
37,802 corpus weight
- discriminés
discriminés
37,801 corpus weight
- dispensant
dispensant
37,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirigeables » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirigeables |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒabl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #62,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirigeables » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirigeables is uncommon French at frequency #62,199 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.ʁi.ʒabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dirigeable.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dirigeables, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dirigeables, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A-B-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dirigeable.
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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