dispatch
\dis.patʃ\
The verdict
“dispatch” is uncommon French (frequency #62,921 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Distribution, répartition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispatch · dispatch · French
dispatch · rank #62,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,921
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discrédite
Nearest frequency peer: discrédite (-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 « dispatch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diptères
diptères
37,083 corpus weight
- discrédite
discrédite
37,081 corpus weight
- dispatch
dispatch
37,080 corpus weight
- divisait
divisait
37,079 corpus weight
- dogue
dogue
37,077 corpus weight
- Domergue
Domergue
37,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dispatch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispatch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.patʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dispatch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dispatch is uncommon French at frequency #62,921 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.patʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dispatch has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 dispatch, spelled D-I-S-P-A-T-C-H.
Definition
- 1Distribution, répartition.
- 2Centre de distribution, centre de répartition.
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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