dispensaire
\dis.pɑ̃.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“dispensaire” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,978. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,978
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement médical où l’on donne des soins et des remèdes aux indigents.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispensaire · dispensaire · French
dispensaire · rank #30,978 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,978
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dingo
Nearest frequency peer: dingo (-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 « dispensaire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- department
department
69,026 corpus weight
- dina
dina
69,025 corpus weight
- dingo
dingo
69,024 corpus weight
- dispensaire
dispensaire
69,023 corpus weight
- divergentes
divergentes
69,022 corpus weight
- divins
divins
69,021 corpus weight
What this shows « dispensaire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispensaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pɑ̃.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #30,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dispensaire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around dispensaire (IPA \dis.pɑ̃.sɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,978 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for dispensaire, with forms such as "ddispensaire", "dipsensaire", and "disepnsaire". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 dispensaire, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement médical où l’on donne des soins et des remèdes aux indigents.
- 2Établissement public où s'organise la prophylaxie de certaines maladies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dispensaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dispensaire de la Croix-Rouge.
Au ministère, tout le monde déplorait qu'un chirurgien de son envergure en fût réduit à prescrire des cachets d'aspirine dans un dispensaire de banlieue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddispensaire
- dipsensaire
- disepnsaire
- dispenasire
- dispennsaire
- dispensaier
- dispensairre
- dispensarie
- dispensiare
- dispenssaire
- dispesnaire
- dispnesaire
- disppensaire
- disspensaire
- dsipensaire
- idspensaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dispensaire - 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).