disette
\di.zɛt\
The verdict
“disette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,696. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,696
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de certaines choses utiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disette · disette · French
disette · rank #26,696 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,696
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discovery
Nearest frequency peer: discovery (-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 « disette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Depp
Depp
73,308 corpus weight
- diagnostiqu…
diagnostiquer
73,307 corpus weight
- discovery
discovery
73,306 corpus weight
- disette
disette
73,305 corpus weight
- door
door
73,304 corpus weight
- Dupuy
Dupuy
73,303 corpus weight
What this shows « disette » 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 | disette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.zɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around disette (IPA \di.zɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,696 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for disette, with forms such as "ddisette", "diestte", and "disete". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "dispute", "disquette", "dette", 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 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 disette, spelled D-I-S-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de certaines choses utiles.
- 2Manque des choses nécessaires à l’alimentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La destruction de ces forêts est un grand mal pour le pays, non seulement à cause de la disette des combustibles, mais à cause de celle des pâturages.
Or les objets qu'ils voudraient acheter sont plus chers que les produits qu'ils vendent. Et ils sont en quantité insuffisante. Par exemple, il y a souvent disette d'étoffes de laine et de coton.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisette
- diestte
- disete
- disetet
- dissette
- distete
- dsiette
- idsette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "disette", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).