discipline

/\di.si.plin\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,453

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

discipline is aFrenchnoun. It means: Méthode d’enseignement, d’éducation et de direction. Pronounced \di.si.plin\. It ranks #3,453 in French word frequency. Often confused with disciplinés and discipliner.

Key facts for discipline
PropertyValue
Headworddiscipline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\di.si.plin\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,453
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for discipline is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.si.plin\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,453 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for discipline, with forms such as "ddiscipline", "dicsipline", and "disccipline". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "disciplinés", "discipliner", "disciple", 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 discipline, spelled D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Méthode d’enseignement, d’éducation et de direction.
  2. 2
    Matière d’enseignement.
  3. 3
    Règle de conduite commune à tous ceux qui font partie d’un corps, d’un ordre, etc, et l’obéissance à cette règle.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des règles de conduite définissant un métier, un sport, le respect des bonnes pratiques et de l’éthique.
  5. 5
    Fouet de cordelettes ou de petites chaînes dont se servent quelquefois encore certains dévots ou des religieux, pour se mortifier, ou pour châtier ceux qui sont sous leur conduite.
  6. 6
    Marques laissées par cet fouet.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddiscipline,dicsipline,disccipline,discilpine,discipilne,disciplien,disciplinne,disciplline,disciplnie,discippline,discpiline,disicpline,disscipline,dsicipline,idscipline

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for discipline

Misspelling Variants of "discipline"

ddiscipline11dicsipline10disccipline11discilpine10discipilne10disciplien10disciplinne11disciplline11
Misspelling Variants of "discipline"

Frequency rank: #3,453 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "discipline"?
"discipline" is spelled D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \di.si.plin\.
What does "discipline" mean?
As a noun, "discipline" means: Méthode d’enseignement, d’éducation et de direction.
What words are commonly confused with "discipline"?
"discipline" is commonly confused with "disciplinés", "discipliner", "disciple". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "discipline"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "discipline" is \di.si.plin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "discipline" come from?
"discipline" 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.