disaster
\dɪˈzɑːs.tə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“disaster” is uncommon French (frequency #75,601 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,601
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désastre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disaster · disaster · French
disaster · rank #75,601 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,601
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH directif
Nearest frequency peer: directif (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « disaster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diorama
diorama
24,403 corpus weight
- dioxine
dioxine
24,402 corpus weight
- directif
directif
24,401 corpus weight
- disaster
disaster
24,400 corpus weight
- disjonction
disjonction
24,398 corpus weight
- disposes
disposes
24,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disaster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disaster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɪˈzɑːs.tə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #75,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disaster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disaster is uncommon French at frequency #75,601 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɪˈzɑːs.tə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désastre.".
disaster has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 disaster, spelled D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Désastre.
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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