dithyrambique
\di.ti.ʁɑ̃.bik\
The verdict
“dithyrambique” is uncommon French (frequency #65,085 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,085
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au genre poétique du dithyrambe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dithyrambique · dithyrambique · French
dithyrambique · rank #65,085 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,085
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divague
Nearest frequency peer: divague (+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 « dithyrambique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disquaires
disquaires
34,919 corpus weight
- dissension
dissension
34,918 corpus weight
- dithyrambiq…
dithyrambique
34,916 corpus weight
- divague
divague
34,915 corpus weight
- diviseurs
diviseurs
34,914 corpus weight
- dormons
dormons
34,913 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dithyrambique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dithyrambique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.ti.ʁɑ̃.bik\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,085 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dithyrambique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dithyrambique is uncommon French at frequency #65,085 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \di.ti.ʁɑ̃.bik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dithyrambique in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dithyrambique, spelled D-I-T-H-Y-R-A-M-B-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au genre poétique du dithyrambe.
- 2Qui est de la nature du dithyrambe.
- 3Qui compose des dithyrambes.
- 4Se dit de quelqu’un volontiers excessif, emphatique, et pompeux dans ses éloges ou son expression en général.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dithyrambique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poème dithyrambique.
Au temps d’Eschyle, quand la tragédie, fidèle à ses origines, est encore un chant dithyrambique.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).