disparition forcée
\dis.pa.ʁi.sjɔ̃ fɔʁ.se\
The verdict
“disparition forcée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arrestation, détention, enlèvement ou autre forme de privation de liberté par des agents de l’État ou par des personnes/groupes agissant avec l’autorisation, l’appui ou l’acquiescement de l’État, s...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disparition forcée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pa.ʁi.sjɔ̃ fɔʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “disparition forcée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for disparition forcée is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.pa.ʁi.sjɔ̃ fɔʁ.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arrestation, détention, enlèvement ou autre forme de privation de liberté par des agents de l’État ou par des personnes/groupes agissant avec l’autorisation, l’appui ou l’acquiescement de l’État, s...".
No misspelling variants are generated for disparition forcée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is disparition forcée, spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-I-T-I-O-N- -F-O-R-C-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arrestation, détention, enlèvement ou autre forme de privation de liberté par des agents de l’État ou par des personnes/groupes agissant avec l’autorisation, l’appui ou l’acquiescement de l’État, suivie du déni de reconnaissance de cette privation de liberté ou de la dissimulation du sort réservé à la personne ou du lieu où elle se trouve, la soustrayant à la protection de la loi.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-I-S-P-A-R-I-T-I-O-N- -F-O-R-C-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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