dispensation
\dis.pɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dispensation” is uncommon French (frequency #69,754 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,754
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspension des lois générales par les autorités compétentes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispensation · dispensation · French
dispensation · rank #69,754 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,754
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diseases
Nearest frequency peer: diseases (-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 « dispensation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discordance
discordance
30,249 corpus weight
- diseases
diseases
30,248 corpus weight
- dispensation
dispensation
30,247 corpus weight
- disruption
disruption
30,246 corpus weight
- dissociée
dissociée
30,245 corpus weight
- dissolvent
dissolvent
30,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dispensation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispensation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #69,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dispensation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dispensation is uncommon French at frequency #69,754 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.pɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dispensation, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dispensation, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Suspension des lois générales par les autorités compétentes.
- 2: la manifesteté de l’être, l’ensemble de l’étant
- 3Distribution, délivrance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dispensation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dispensation des médicaments.
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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