discontinuité

\dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\

/\dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“discontinuité” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,830. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,830
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut ou absence de continuité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-discontinuite · discontinuité · French

discontinuité · rank #42,830 · 20 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,830
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 20 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH Dioclétien

Nearest frequency peer: Dioclétien (-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 « discontinuité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « discontinuité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for discontinuité
PropertyValue
Headworddiscontinuité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\
Letters13
Frequency rank#42,830
Misspellings tracked20
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « discontinuité »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).discontinuitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Dioclétien » (#42,829), « Dinard » (#42,828), « doublées » (#42,832). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « discontinuité » est au #42,830. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 20 spelling variants around discontinuité (IPA \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,830 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for discontinuité, with forms such as "ddiscontinuité", "dicsontinuité", and "disccontinuité". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is discontinuité, spelled D-I-S-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Défaut ou absence de continuité.
  2. 2
    Contraire de continuité (existence d’un ouvert dont la préimage par une application n’est pas ouvert)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how discontinuité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ce bourrelet s'étend, sans discontinuité, de l'Ouest, qui est à notre gauche, à l'Est qui est à notre droite, en passant derrière Doulaize, village qui est en face de nous.
  2. A l’inverse, l’étendue de telle plaine divisée en une mosaïque de parcelles culturalement distinctes se verra différenciée par des contenus, eux aussi dotés d'attributs géométriques et de surface, mais sans que des discontinuités topologiques les séparent pourtant.

Synonyms

suspensioninterruptionrupture

Antonyms

continuité

This word in other languages

discontinuity(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddiscontinuité
  • dicsontinuité
  • disccontinuité
  • discnotinuité
  • disconitnuité
  • disconntinuité
  • discontiniuté
  • discontinnuité
  • discontinuite
  • discontinuitté
  • discontinuiét
  • discontinutié
  • discontiunité
  • discontniuité
  • disconttinuité
  • discotninuité
  • disocntinuité
  • disscontinuité
  • dsicontinuité
  • idscontinuité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of discontinuité - 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.

ddiscontinuité1dicsontinuité2disccontinuité1discnotinuité2disconitnuité2disconntinuité1discontiniuté2discontinnuité1
Edit distance from "discontinuité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "discontinuité"?
"discontinuité" is spelled D-I-S-C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\.
What does "discontinuité" mean?
As a noun, "discontinuité" means: Défaut ou absence de continuité.
What are common misspellings of "discontinuité"?
Common misspellings include "ddiscontinuité", "dicsontinuité", "disccontinuité", "discnotinuité", "disconitnuité". The correct spelling is "discontinuité".
How do you pronounce "discontinuité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "discontinuité" is \dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "discontinuité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "discontinuité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list