dispenser
\dis.pɑ̃.se\
The verdict
“dispenser” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,935
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exempter de la règle ordinaire, par faveur spéciale, ou simplement exempter de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispenser · dispenser · French
dispenser · rank #24,935 · 14 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,935
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discutez
Nearest frequency peer: discutez (-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 « dispenser »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dirk
dirk
75,069 corpus weight
- discerner
discerner
75,068 corpus weight
- discutez
discutez
75,067 corpus weight
- dispenser
dispenser
75,066 corpus weight
- dissuasion
dissuasion
75,065 corpus weight
- diverse
diverse
75,064 corpus weight
What this shows « dispenser » 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 | dispenser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.pɑ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dispenser »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around dispenser (IPA \dis.pɑ̃.se\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,935 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dispenser, with forms such as "ddispenser", "dipsenser", and "disepnser". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "disposer", "disperse", "disperser", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dispenser, spelled D-I-S-P-E-N-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Exempter de la règle ordinaire, par faveur spéciale, ou simplement exempter de quelque chose.
- 2Distribuer.
- 3S’exempter soi-même de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dispenser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Simonot était du nombre, et Suzon passait une partie de la journée à cuisiner, en compagnie de Mᵐᵉ Jeanne, qui avait pris ses quartiers dans un hôtel voisin dont on nous dispensera de faire la description ; […].
Dispenser de la loi commune. - Sont dispensées de la tutelle les personnes qui… - être dispensé de quelque formalité. - Dispenser quelqu’un du service militaire.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddispenser
- dipsenser
- disepnser
- dispenesr
- dispennser
- dispenserr
- dispensre
- dispensser
- dispesner
- dispneser
- disppenser
- disspenser
- dsipenser
- idspenser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dispenser - 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 "dispenser", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).