disk
\ˈdisk\
The verdict
“disk” is uncommon French (frequency #63,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,672
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Disque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disk · disk · French
disk · rank #63,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,672
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devinerez
Nearest frequency peer: devinerez (-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 « disk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- destiner
destiner
36,332 corpus weight
- devantures
devantures
36,331 corpus weight
- devinerez
devinerez
36,330 corpus weight
- disk
disk
36,329 corpus weight
- divinatoire
divinatoire
36,328 corpus weight
- Diwan
Diwan
36,327 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈdisk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disk is uncommon French at frequency #63,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈdisk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Disque.".
No misspelling variants are generated for disk in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is disk, spelled D-I-S-K.
Definition
- 1Disque.
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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