dirigèrent
\di.ʁi.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“dirigèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,202
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de diriger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigerent · dirigèrent · French
dirigèrent · rank #68,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,202
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dimensionnel
Nearest frequency peer: dimensionnel (-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 « dirigèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dewar
dewar
31,803 corpus weight
- Dieng
Dieng
31,802 corpus weight
- dimensionnel
dimensionnel
31,800 corpus weight
- dirigèrent
dirigèrent
31,799 corpus weight
- discordantes
discordantes
31,798 corpus weight
- diz
diz
31,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirigèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirigèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirigèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirigèrent is uncommon French at frequency #68,202 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.ʁi.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de diriger.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dirigèrent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 dirigèrent, spelled D-I-R-I-G-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de diriger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirigèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils récupérèrent leurs valises et se dirigèrent vers la sortie en quête d’un yellow cab.
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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