dirions
\di.ʁjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dirions” is uncommon French (frequency #81,063 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,063
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du conditionnel de dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dirions · dirions · French
dirions · rank #81,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,063
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dioxines
Nearest frequency peer: dioxines (-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 « dirions »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Diois
Diois
18,941 corpus weight
- Dioscoride
Dioscoride
18,940 corpus weight
- dioxines
dioxines
18,939 corpus weight
- dirions
dirions
18,938 corpus weight
- discordes
discordes
18,937 corpus weight
- discourir
discourir
18,936 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dirions » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dirions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.ʁjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dirions » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dirions is uncommon French at frequency #81,063 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.ʁjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du pluriel du conditionnel de dire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dirions, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dirions, spelled D-I-R-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du conditionnel de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dirions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est, à notre sens, trahir totalement l’esprit de l’anthropologie thomiste qu’en donner, comme Maritain, le commentaire suivant : « Si nous parlions le langage moderne, nous dirions, pour tacher d’exprimer cette initiative de non-être, cette initiative d’absence, que la volonté nihilise, qu’elle néante… Elle fait du non-être, c’est-à-dire que librement e…
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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