discontinuer
\dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\
The verdict
“discontinuer” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,736
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Interrompre pour un temps une action ou un ouvrage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discontinuer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #41,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “discontinuer” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around discontinuer (IPA \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,736 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for discontinuer, with forms such as "ddiscontinuer", "dicsontinuer", and "disccontinuer". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is discontinuer, spelled D-I-S-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Interrompre pour un temps une action ou un ouvrage.
- 2Cesser pour un temps, en parlant des choses ou des actions.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddiscontinuer
- dicsontinuer
- disccontinuer
- discnotinuer
- disconitnuer
- disconntinuer
- discontineur
- discontinnuer
- discontinuerr
- discontinure
- discontiuner
- discontniuer
- disconttinuer
- discotninuer
- disocntinuer
- disscontinuer
- dsicontinuer
- idscontinuer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discontinuer - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “discontinuer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-S-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.