dirigiste
\di.ʁi.ʒist\
The verdict
“dirigiste” is uncommon French (frequency #85,640 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,640
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au dirigisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirigiste · dirigiste · French
dirigiste · rank #85,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,640
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divertissants
Nearest frequency peer: divertissants (+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 « dirigiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DFS
DFS
14,366 corpus weight
- diapositive
diapositive
14,365 corpus weight
- difformité
difformité
14,364 corpus weight
- dilatent
dilatent
14,363 corpus weight
- dirigiste
dirigiste
14,361 corpus weight
- divertissan…
divertissants
14,360 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirigiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirigiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ʁi.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirigiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirigiste is uncommon French at frequency #85,640 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.ʁi.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dirigiste in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dirigiste, spelled D-I-R-I-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au dirigisme.
- 2Se dit d'un jeu vidéo où le joueur n'est pas libre d'explorer, de progresser dans le jeu comme il l'entend, que ce soit à cause de sa narration ou de sa structure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirigiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La politique économique dirigiste de l'État français.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).