lire en diagonale
\li.ʁ‿ɑ̃ dja.ɡɔ.nal\
The verdict
“lire en diagonale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Survoler un texte ; le lire très rapidement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lire en diagonale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \li.ʁ‿ɑ̃ dja.ɡɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lire en diagonale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lire en diagonale is 17 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \li.ʁ‿ɑ̃ dja.ɡɔ.nal\. 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: "Survoler un texte ; le lire très rapidement.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for lire en diagonale, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lire en diagonale, spelled L-I-R-E- -E-N- -D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Survoler un texte ; le lire très rapidement.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “lire en diagonale”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-R-E- -E-N- -D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \li.ʁ‿ɑ̃ dja.ɡɔ.nal\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.