gamme diatonique
\ɡam dja.tɔ.nik\
The verdict
“gamme diatonique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou gamme majeure de do, Cela correspond aussi ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gamme diatonique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡam dja.tɔ.nik\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gamme diatonique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for gamme diatonique is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɡam dja.tɔ.nik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou gamme majeure de do, Cela correspond aussi ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for gamme diatonique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is gamme diatonique, spelled G-A-M-M-E- -D-I-A-T-O-N-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Gamme composée de huit notes conjointes, donc de sept intervalles, dont cinq valent un ton et deux un demi-ton. On l'appelle également gamme naturelle ou gamme majeure de do, Cela correspond aussi au mode ionien des modes grégoriens, ou « modes grecs » médiévaux.
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- The one correct French spelling is G-A-M-M-E- -D-I-A-T-O-N-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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