disaient
\di.zɛ\
The verdict
“disaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,808. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,808
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disaient · disaient · French
disaient · rank #6,808 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH créateurs
Nearest frequency peer: créateurs (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « disaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- courageux
courageux
93,197 corpus weight
- crever
crever
93,196 corpus weight
- créateurs
créateurs
93,195 corpus weight
- disaient
disaient
93,193 corpus weight
- disparaît
disparaît
93,191 corpus weight
- divisé
divisé
93,190 corpus weight
What this shows « disaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around disaient (IPA \di.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,808 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for disaient, with forms such as "ddisaient", "diasient", and "disaeint". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "disent", "disait", "disant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is disaient, spelled D-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À peine l’indépendance de l’Amérique du Nord fut-elle proclamée, la paix conclue avec l’ancienne métropole, que ces hommes qui criaient si haut à la tyrannie, à l’oppression, qui réclamaient contre la violation du droit des gens, dont, disaient-ils, ils étaient victimes, organisèrent avec cet implacable sang-froid qu’ils tiennent de leur origine une chass…
Oui, madame de Maufrigneuse restait un ange que les corruptions de la terre n’atteignaient pas : un ange aux Variétés devant ces farces à demi obscènes et populacières qui la faisaient rire, un ange au milieu du feu croisé des délicieuses plaisanteries et des chroniques scandaleuses qui se disaient aux parties fines, un ange pâmée au Vaudeville en loge gr…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisaient
- diasient
- disaeint
- disaiennt
- disaientt
- disaietn
- disainet
- disiaent
- dissaient
- dsiaient
- idsaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).