disco
\dis.ko\
The verdict
“disco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Discothèque. Endroit où l’on va habituellement de nuit pour écouter de la musique et danser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disco · disco · French
disco · rank #17,113 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,113
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Diderot
Nearest frequency peer: Diderot (-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 « disco »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- devions
devions
82,891 corpus weight
- diagonale
diagonale
82,890 corpus weight
- Diderot
Diderot
82,889 corpus weight
- disco
disco
82,888 corpus weight
- distraction
distraction
82,887 corpus weight
- dixit
dixit
82,886 corpus weight
What this shows « disco » 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 | disco |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.ko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disco »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around disco (IPA \dis.ko\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,113 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for disco, with forms such as "ddisco", "dicso", and "discco". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "dise", "dispo", "dises", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is disco, spelled D-I-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1Discothèque. Endroit où l’on va habituellement de nuit pour écouter de la musique et danser.
- 2Genre musical et danse apparu au début des années 1970, mélange de funk, de soul, de pop et de musique latino-américaine, enrichi sur synthétiseurs.
- 3Danse sur ce rythme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était comme si trois heures passées dans une disco homo avaient complètement transformé sa personnalité.
Au début des années 1970, les très populaires sorties en discothèque se font aux sons de la musique funk et du disco. Les DJ règnent en maîtres dans ces soirées, passant les derniers tubes et soignant les enchaînements rythmiques pour les danseurs. — (Goulven Hamel et Laurence Schaack, Backstage : Le béton qui coule dans nos veines : Roman hip-hop, Éditio…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisco
- dicso
- discco
- disoc
- dissco
- dsico
- idsco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disco - 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 "disco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).