disent
\diz\
The verdict
“disent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,024
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disent · disent · French
disent · rank #1,024 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,024
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH couleur
Nearest frequency peer: couleur (-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 « disent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- commun
commun
98,979 corpus weight
- couleur
couleur
98,978 corpus weight
- disent
disent
98,977 corpus weight
- durée
durée
98,976 corpus weight
- erreur
erreur
98,975 corpus weight
- espèce
espèce
98,974 corpus weight
What this shows « disent » 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 | disent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \diz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around disent (IPA \diz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,024 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for disent, with forms such as "ddisent", "diesnt", and "disennt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dises", "disons", "durent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is disent, spelled D-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dire.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Flaine, sept immenses arbres (9,20 m), sortis d’une maquette de « L’Hourloupe » — tous blancs avec leurs nombreuses stries noires, liés les uns aux autres (une danse) — s’amusent à concurrencer les sapins du fond, froids et rigides : ils nous disent ce que Dubuffet a tenté et réussi, abêtir ("balourdiser") le réel.
Les jeunes femmes ont un sens aigu de ce qu’il convient de faire et de ne pas faire quand on a cessé d’être jeune. « Je ne comprends pas, disent-elles, que passé quarante ans on se teigne en blond ; qu’on s’exhibe en bikini ; qu’on coquette avec les hommes. Moi, quand j’aurai cet âge-là… »
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisent
- diesnt
- disennt
- disentt
- disetn
- disnet
- dissent
- dsient
- idsent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disent - 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 "disent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).