dispense
\dis.pɑ̃s\
The verdict
“dispense” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,342
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exemption, acte par lequel on dispense une personne de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispense · dispense · French
dispense · rank #16,342 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,342
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disciplinaire
Nearest frequency peer: disciplinaire (-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 « dispense »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dinde
dinde
83,661 corpus weight
- disciplinai…
disciplinaire
83,660 corpus weight
- dispense
dispense
83,659 corpus weight
- diversifica…
diversification
83,658 corpus weight
- dun
dun
83,657 corpus weight
- débouché
débouché
83,656 corpus weight
What this shows « dispense » 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 | dispense |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dispense »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dispense (IPA \dis.pɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,342 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dispense, with forms such as "ddispense", "dipsense", and "disepnse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "dispose", "disperse", "disperser", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dispense, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-E.
Definition
- 1Exemption, acte par lequel on dispense une personne de quelque chose.
- 2Pièce qui constate l’exemption.
- 3Mot masculin Permission de faire une chose contraire à ce qui est prescrit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dispense appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dispense de tutelle.
Dispense de bans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddispense
- dipsense
- disepnse
- dispenes
- dispennse
- dispensse
- dispesne
- dispnese
- disppense
- disspense
- dsipense
- idspense
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dispense - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dispense", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).