désordre

/\de.zɔʁdʁ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,995

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

désordre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Manque d’ordre. Pronounced \de.zɔʁdʁ\. It ranks #8,995 in French word frequency. Often confused with désordres and déborde.

Key facts for désordre
PropertyValue
Headworddésordre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\de.zɔʁdʁ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,995
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of désordre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for désordre is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.zɔʁdʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,995 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for désordre, with forms such as "ddésordre", "desordre", and "dséordre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "désordres", "déborde", "découdre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 désordre, spelled D-É-S-O-R-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manque d’ordre.
  2. 2
    Trouble, égarement.
  3. 3
    Fait attestant le désordre.
  4. 4
    Mauvais état de certaines choses qui ne sont pas ou ne sont plus réglées, administrées, etc., comme elles devraient l’être.
  5. 5
    Dérèglement de mœurs.
  6. 6
    Querelle, dissension, et particulièrement, trouble, émeute, dans un état, dans une ville, etc.
  7. 7
    Avarie apparaissant sur une construction, un bâtiment ou un ouvrage, attestant de son dysfonctionnement ou d’une non-qualité.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddésordre,desordre,dséordre,déosrdre,désodrre,désorddre,désorder,désordrre,désorrde,désorrdre,désrodre,déssordre,édsordre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for désordre

Misspelling Variants of "désordre"

ddésordre9desordre8dséordre8déosrdre8désodrre8désorddre9désorder8désordrre9
Misspelling Variants of "désordre"

Frequency rank: #8,995 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "désordre"?
"désordre" is spelled D-É-S-O-R-D-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \de.zɔʁdʁ\.
What does "désordre" mean?
As a noun, "désordre" means: Manque d’ordre.
What words are commonly confused with "désordre"?
"désordre" is commonly confused with "désordres", "déborde", "découdre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "désordre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "désordre" is \de.zɔʁdʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "désordre" come from?
"désordre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.