disait
\di.zɛ\
The verdict
“disait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,360. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,360
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disait · disait · French
disait · rank #1,360 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,360
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dessous
Nearest frequency peer: dessous (-1 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 « disait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- chaud
chaud
98,644 corpus weight
- contexte
contexte
98,643 corpus weight
- dessous
dessous
98,642 corpus weight
- disait
disait
98,641 corpus weight
- extérieur
extérieur
98,640 corpus weight
- faudra
faudra
98,639 corpus weight
What this shows « disait » 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 | disait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around disait (IPA \di.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,360 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de dire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for disait, with forms such as "ddisait", "diasit", and "disaitt". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "dixit", "disent", "disant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 disait, spelled D-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On entendait précisément la voix dudit professeur qui embarrassé par un coup, disait en tenant ses cartes : « C’est ici que les Athéniens s’atteignirent. ».
Lorsque la troupe des pastoureaux entra dans Orléans, le jour de saint Barnabas, l’évêque de cette ville interdit à tous ses clercs d’assister à ses prédications ; car, disait-il, ce sont les souricières du diable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisait
- diasit
- disaitt
- disati
- disiat
- dissait
- dsiait
- idsait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).