disposition
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,734
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
disposition is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de disposer ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \dis.po.zi.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #1,734 in French word frequency. Often confused with dispositions and dispositif.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disposition |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.po.zi.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #1,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for disposition is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.po.zi.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,734 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for disposition, with forms such as "ddisposition", "dipsosition", and "disopsition". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dispositions", "dispositif", "disparition", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is disposition, spelled D-I-S-P-O-S-I-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de disposer ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Manière dont une chose est disposée.
- 3Arrangement des parties dont un discours est composé.
- 4Tendance, acheminement à quelque chose de plus ou moins prochain, à une modification ou altération.
- 5État bon ou mauvais du tempérament ou de la santé.
- 6Inclination ; aptitude.
- 7Action de régler quelque chose, d’en disposer ou résultat de cette action.
- 8Action de disposer de son bien, ainsi que de tout acte par lequel on en dispose.
- 9Chacun des points que règle ou que décide une loi, une ordonnance, un arrêté, un jugement, un arrêt, etc.
- 10Pouvoir, faculté de disposer de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
- 11Préparatifs.
- 12Sentiments où l’on est à l’égard de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisposition,dipsosition,disopsition,dispoistion,disposiiton,dispositino,dispositionn,dispositoin,disposittion,dispossition,dispostiion,dispposition,dispsoition,dissposition,dsiposition,idsposition
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disposition
Misspelling Variants of "disposition"
Frequency rank: #1,734 in French
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