discus
\ˈdɪs.kəs\
The verdict
“discus” is uncommon French (frequency #82,857 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,857
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disque à lancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-discus · discus · French
discus · rank #82,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,857
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disputa
Nearest frequency peer: disputa (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « discus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diffuseront
diffuseront
17,147 corpus weight
- diligenter
diligenter
17,146 corpus weight
- discus
discus
17,144 corpus weight
- disputa
disputa
17,143 corpus weight
- distri
distri
17,142 corpus weight
- distributri…
distributrice
17,141 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « discus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | discus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdɪs.kəs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « discus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
discus is uncommon French at frequency #82,857 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdɪs.kəs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for discus, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is discus, spelled D-I-S-C-U-S.
Definition
- 1Disque à lancer.
- 2Lancer du disque.
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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