dispersion
\dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dispersion” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,949
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de disperser, de se disperser ou résultat de cette action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dispersion · dispersion · French
dispersion · rank #12,949 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,949
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discriminatio…
Nearest frequency peer: discriminations (-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 « dispersion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- desquelles
desquelles
87,055 corpus weight
- diffusés
diffusés
87,054 corpus weight
- discriminat…
discriminations
87,053 corpus weight
- dispersion
dispersion
87,052 corpus weight
- dot
dot
87,051 corpus weight
- dramatiques
dramatiques
87,050 corpus weight
What this shows « dispersion » 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 | dispersion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dispersion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dispersion (IPA \dis.pɛʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,949 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action de disperser, de se disperser ou résultat de cette action.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dispersion, with forms such as "ddispersion", "dipsersion", and "diseprsion". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "diversion", "distorsion", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dispersion, spelled D-I-S-P-E-R-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de disperser, de se disperser ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dispersion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Et quelle nouvelle apportes-tu d’York, brave comte ? demanda Ivanhoé ; les rebelles nous y attendront-ils ? – Pas plus que la neige de décembre n’attend le soleil de juillet, dit le comte ; ils sont en pleine dispersion.
Que le rural soit plus confiant et qu'il utilise, de plus en plus, l'électricité dans l'exécution de ses travaux, alors les inconvénients que représente la dispersion des abonnés disparaîtront.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddispersion
- dipsersion
- diseprsion
- disperison
- disperrsion
- dispersino
- dispersionn
- dispersoin
- disperssion
- dispesrion
- disppersion
- dispresion
- disspersion
- dsipersion
- idspersion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dispersion - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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