diseur
\di.zœʁ\
The verdict
“diseur” is uncommon French (frequency #97,861 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,861
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui dit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-diseur · diseur · French
diseur · rank #97,861 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,861
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disettes
Nearest frequency peer: disettes (-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 « diseur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disa
disa
2,143 corpus weight
- discourse
discourse
2,142 corpus weight
- disettes
disettes
2,141 corpus weight
- diseur
diseur
2,140 corpus weight
- dispersa
dispersa
2,139 corpus weight
- dissipera
dissipera
2,138 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « diseur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | diseur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.zœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « diseur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
diseur is uncommon French at frequency #97,861 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.zœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for diseur in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is diseur, spelled D-I-S-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui dit.
- 2Personne qui dit, qui récite, qui déclame avec art et agrément.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how diseur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Diseur de bons mots.
Diseuse de bonne aventure.
This word in other languages
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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