disette
French, noun/di.zɛt/
disette is spelled D-I-S-E-T-T-E (7 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written French, the 26,653rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disette is a French feminine noun meaning “scarcity, shortage, dearth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manque de certaines choses utiles”.
What does disette mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescarcity, shortage, dearth
- 2
femininefood shortage, famine
- 3
archaicfemininean old variety of beet
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manque de certaines choses utiles. 2. Manque des choses nécessaires à l’alimentation.
noun: 1. Variété ancienne de betterave. [note : ce mot s’emploie encore en Bourgogne et en Lorraine dans le sens de betterave fourragère] ^([1])
noun: 1. Commérage, ragot (dans le Berry).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of disette
- disettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disette?
- /di.zɛt/
- \di.zɛt\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disette
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disette in French?
disette appears 1.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).