dispensait
\dis.pɑ̃.sɛ\
The verdict
“dispensait” is uncommon French (frequency #93,682 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dispenser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispensait · dispensait · French
dispensait · rank #93,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,682
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discriminants
Nearest frequency peer: discriminants (-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 « dispensait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dipôle
dipôle
6,321 corpus weight
- discriminan…
discriminants
6,320 corpus weight
- dispensait
dispensait
6,319 corpus weight
- doan
doan
6,318 corpus weight
- doble
doble
6,317 corpus weight
- dodus
dodus
6,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dispensait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispensait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.pɑ̃.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dispensait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dispensait is uncommon French at frequency #93,682 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.pɑ̃.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dispenser.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dispensait in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dispensait, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de dispenser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dispensait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rô, qui faisait de la chair des pauvres gens qu’elle surprenait chaque jour, de coutumières ripailles, n’était pas seulement une redoutable ennemie, mais, douée par surcroît d’une subtile intelligence et d’une perversion inexplicable, elle savait tendre aux riverains de la côte, pièges et trébuchets, afin qu’y tombassent les imprudents égarés loin du bour…
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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