dispersive
"dispersive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dispersive” is an uncommon English word, ranked #69,001 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #69,001
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That becomes dispersed
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispersive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dispersive” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dispersive is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #69,001 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dispersive in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From disperse + -ive. The correct English form is dispersive, spelled D-I-S-P-E-R-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1That becomes dispersed
- 2That causes dispersion
Etymology
From disperse + -ive.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “dispersive”
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- The one correct English spelling is D-I-S-P-E-R-S-I-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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