dirigeais
\di.ʁi.ʒɛ\
The verdict
“dirigeais” is uncommon French (frequency #67,443 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,443
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigeais · dirigeais · French
dirigeais · rank #67,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,443
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discontinu
Nearest frequency peer: discontinu (+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 « dirigeais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dilatée
dilatée
32,561 corpus weight
- Diomède
Diomède
32,560 corpus weight
- dirigeais
dirigeais
32,558 corpus weight
- discontinu
discontinu
32,557 corpus weight
- dissimulait
dissimulait
32,556 corpus weight
- disséminer
disséminer
32,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirigeais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirigeais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirigeais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirigeais is uncommon French at frequency #67,443 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.ʁi.ʒɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dirigeais in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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, 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 dirigeais, spelled D-I-R-I-G-E-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de diriger.
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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