disparu
\dis.pa.ʁy\
The verdict
“disparu” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,034. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,034
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soldat qui, après une action de guerre, manque à l’appel sans être retrouvé parmi les morts et les blessés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disparu · disparu · French
disparu · rank #2,034 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH devenue
Nearest frequency peer: devenue (-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 « disparu »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- demandes
demandes
97,969 corpus weight
- devenue
devenue
97,968 corpus weight
- disparu
disparu
97,967 corpus weight
- donnent
donnent
97,966 corpus weight
- douleur
douleur
97,965 corpus weight
- décès
décès
97,964 corpus weight
What this shows « disparu » 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 | disparu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pa.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disparu »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around disparu (IPA \dis.pa.ʁy\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,034 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for disparu, with forms such as "ddisparu", "dipsaru", and "disapru". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "disparue", "disparus", "disparut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is disparu, spelled D-I-S-P-A-R-U.
Definition
- 1Soldat qui, après une action de guerre, manque à l’appel sans être retrouvé parmi les morts et les blessés.
- 2Personne manquante, morte ou qu’on ne retrouve pas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disparu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un moment de silence pour nous rappeler nos chers disparus.
On a une morte et un disparu.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisparu
- dipsaru
- disapru
- disparru
- dispaur
- dispparu
- disprau
- dissparu
- dsiparu
- idsparu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disparu - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disparu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).