disciples
\di.sipl\
The verdict
“disciples” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,487
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de disciple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disciples · disciples · French
disciples · rank #10,487 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,487
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH directives
Nearest frequency peer: directives (-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 « disciples »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- descendu
descendu
89,517 corpus weight
- devine
devine
89,516 corpus weight
- directives
directives
89,515 corpus weight
- disciples
disciples
89,514 corpus weight
- distinctes
distinctes
89,513 corpus weight
- découverts
découverts
89,512 corpus weight
What this shows « disciples » 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 | disciples |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sipl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disciples »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around disciples (IPA \di.sipl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,487 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de disciple.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for disciples, with forms such as "ddisciples", "dicsiples", and "discciples". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "disciplinés", "disciple", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is disciples, spelled D-I-S-C-I-P-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de disciple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how disciples appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faisons quelques clins d’œil à certains de ses disciples et ses sous-disciples comme Platon et autres philosophes dont leurs pensées et réflexions inspirent des politiciens et d'autres dirigeants des générations jusqu’aujourd'hui.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisciples
- dicsiples
- discciples
- discilpes
- discipels
- discipless
- disciplles
- disciplse
- discipples
- discpiles
- disicples
- dissciples
- dsiciples
- idsciples
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disciples - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).