dispersa
\dis.pɛʁ.sa\
The verdict
“dispersa” is uncommon French (frequency #97,862 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,862
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de disperser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispersa · dispersa · French
dispersa · rank #97,862 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,862
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diseur
Nearest frequency peer: diseur (-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 « dispersa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discourse
discourse
2,142 corpus weight
- disettes
disettes
2,141 corpus weight
- diseur
diseur
2,140 corpus weight
- dispersa
dispersa
2,139 corpus weight
- dissipera
dissipera
2,138 corpus weight
- dissuadera
dissuadera
2,137 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dispersa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dispersa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.pɛʁ.sa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,862 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dispersa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dispersa is uncommon French at frequency #97,862 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.pɛʁ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de disperser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dispersa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dispersa, spelled D-I-S-P-E-R-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de disperser.
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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