matrice diagonale
\ma.tʁis dja.ɡo.nal\
The verdict
“matrice diagonale” 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Matrice carrée dont les coefficients en dehors de la diagonale principale sont nuls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matrice diagonale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.tʁis dja.ɡo.nal\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “matrice diagonale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for matrice diagonale is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.tʁis dja.ɡo.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: "Matrice carrée dont les coefficients en dehors de la diagonale principale sont nuls.".
No misspelling variants are generated for matrice diagonale 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 matrice diagonale, spelled M-A-T-R-I-C-E- -D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Matrice carrée dont les coefficients en dehors de la diagonale principale sont nuls.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-T-R-I-C-E- -D-I-A-G-O-N-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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