Diyarbakir
The verdict
“Diyarbakir” is uncommon French (frequency #88,536 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,536
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du sud-est de la Turquie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diyarbakir · Diyarbakir · French
Diyarbakir · rank #88,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,536
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divo
Nearest frequency peer: divo (-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 « Diyarbakir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disposa
disposa
11,469 corpus weight
- divertis
divertis
11,467 corpus weight
- divo
divo
11,466 corpus weight
- Diyarbakir
Diyarbakir
11,465 corpus weight
- diététicien
diététicien
11,464 corpus weight
- doctrinaires
doctrinaires
11,462 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Diyarbakir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Diyarbakir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Diyarbakir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Diyarbakir is uncommon French at frequency #88,536 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du sud-est de la Turquie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Diyarbakir, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Diyarbakir, spelled D-I-Y-A-R-B-A-K-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ville du sud-est de la Turquie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Diyarbakir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut cependant un échec et, dès août 2015, le PKK passait à l'action dans plusieurs villes du sud-est turc : Cizre, Nusaybin ou Diyarbakir.
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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