disparaitre
\dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ\
The verdict
“disparaitre” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,926. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,926
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cesser de paraitre, ne plus être visible. Le participe passé est disparu, l’auxiliaire avoir et (rare/littéraire) être (pour indiquer l’état).
Corpus desk
Index FR-disparaitre · disparaitre · French
disparaitre · rank #17,926 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,926
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dirigeante
Nearest frequency peer: dirigeante (-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 « disparaitre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- digestif
digestif
82,078 corpus weight
- dirigeante
dirigeante
82,076 corpus weight
- disparaitre
disparaitre
82,075 corpus weight
- divertir
divertir
82,074 corpus weight
- Dominic
Dominic
82,073 corpus weight
- dominicaine
dominicaine
82,072 corpus weight
What this shows « disparaitre » 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 | disparaitre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #17,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disparaitre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around disparaitre (IPA \dis.pa.ʁɛtʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,926 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for disparaitre, with forms such as "ddisparaitre", "dipsaraitre", and "disapraitre". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "disparité", "disparate", "disparaît", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is disparaitre, spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-A-I-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Cesser de paraitre, ne plus être visible. Le participe passé est disparu, l’auxiliaire avoir et (rare/littéraire) être (pour indiquer l’état).
- 2Ne plus être, ne plus exister.
- 3Partir.
- 4Devenir introuvable.
- 5Cesser d’être, d’exister.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disparaitre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je suis entrée, il est venu à moi, et m’a félicitée fort affectueusement sur le meilleur état de ma santé. Comme la messe commençait, j’ai abrégé la conversation, que je comptais bien reprendre après; mais il a disparu avant que j’aie pu le joindre.
L'expérience consista à faire disparaître un dé à jouer en acajou dans une salle d'expérience de l’Université du Texas afin qu'il réapparaisse dans un laboratoire de GeoTricks, quelques kilomètres plus loin.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisparaitre
- dipsaraitre
- disapraitre
- dispaaritre
- disparairte
- disparaiter
- disparaitrre
- disparaittre
- disparatire
- dispariatre
- disparraitre
- dispparaitre
- dispraaitre
- dissparaitre
- dsiparaitre
- idsparaitre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disparaitre - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).