disparité

\dis.pa.ʁi.te\

/\dis.pa.ʁi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“disparité” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,565. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#30,565
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manque de parité, absence d'égalité entre des personnes ou des choses que l'on compare.

Corpus desk

Index FR-disparite · disparité · French

disparité · rank #30,565 · 14 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #30,565
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dirent

Nearest frequency peer: dirent (-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 « disparité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « disparité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

disparité vs disparue
67% similar
disparité vs disparut
78% similar
disparité vs disparités
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for disparité
PropertyValue
Headworddisparité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dis.pa.ʁi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#30,565
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disparité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).disparitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dirent » (#30,564), « does » (#30,566), « dinars » (#30,563). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « disparité » est au #30,565. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around disparité (IPA \dis.pa.ʁi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,565 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Manque de parité, absence d'égalité entre des personnes ou des choses que l'on compare.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for disparité, with forms such as "ddisparité", "dipsarité", and "disaprité". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "disparue", "disparut", "disparités", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 disparité, spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manque de parité, absence d'égalité entre des personnes ou des choses que l'on compare.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how disparité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les données obtenues, illustrées dans les deux cartes ci-dessous, mettent en évidence des disparités géographiques surprenantes : dans certaines régions, la puberté précoce est douze fois plus fréquente que dans d'autres (six fois plus chez les garçons).

Synonyms

différencedisproportionécart

This word in other languages

disparity(English)Disparität(Deutsch)disparidade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddisparité
  • dipsarité
  • disaprité
  • dispairté
  • disparite
  • disparitté
  • dispariét
  • disparrité
  • dispartié
  • dispparité
  • dispraité
  • dissparité
  • dsiparité
  • idsparité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disparité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddisparité1dipsarité2disaprité2dispairté2disparite1disparitté1dispariét2disparrité1
Edit distance from "disparité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disparité"?
"disparité" is spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \dis.pa.ʁi.te\.
What does "disparité" mean?
As a noun, "disparité" means: Manque de parité, absence d'égalité entre des personnes ou des choses que l'on compare.
What words are commonly confused with "disparité"?
"disparité" is commonly confused with "disparue", "disparut", "disparités". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "disparité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "disparité" is \dis.pa.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "disparité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disparité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dextérité#30,562devançant#30,560débordant#30,571défendons#30,574

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

créatives14 variantscontracte14 variantsconsommant14 variantscommandent14 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list