disposa
\dis.pɔ.za\
The verdict
“disposa” is uncommon French (frequency #88,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,532
- 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 disposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disposa · disposa · French
disposa · rank #88,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,532
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dill
Nearest frequency peer: dill (-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 « disposa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Digoin
Digoin
11,471 corpus weight
- dill
dill
11,470 corpus weight
- disposa
disposa
11,469 corpus weight
- divertis
divertis
11,467 corpus weight
- divo
divo
11,466 corpus weight
- Diyarbakir
Diyarbakir
11,465 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disposa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disposa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.pɔ.za\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disposa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disposa is uncommon French at frequency #88,532 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis.pɔ.za\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de disposer.".
disposa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is disposa, spelled D-I-S-P-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de disposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how disposa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle disposa les fleurs au chevet, fit arrêter le balancier de l’horloge, voiler les glaces et les miroirs, fermer les fenêtres et cacher les portraits.
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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