disproportion
\dis.pʁɔ.pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“disproportion” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,833. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,833
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de proportion entre différentes choses ou entre les parties d’une même chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disproportion · disproportion · French
disproportion · rank #47,833 · 20 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,833
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissertations
Nearest frequency peer: dissertations (+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 « disproportion »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diantre
diantre
52,172 corpus weight
- diminués
diminués
52,171 corpus weight
- diocésains
diocésains
52,170 corpus weight
- disproporti…
disproportion
52,168 corpus weight
- dissertatio…
dissertations
52,167 corpus weight
- dissolvant
dissolvant
52,166 corpus weight
What this shows « disproportion » 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 | disproportion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pʁɔ.pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #47,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disproportion »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around disproportion (IPA \dis.pʁɔ.pɔʁ.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,833 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Défaut de proportion entre différentes choses ou entre les parties d’une même chose.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for disproportion, with forms such as "ddisproportion", "dipsroportion", and "disporportion". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "disproportionné", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is disproportion, spelled D-I-S-P-R-O-P-O-R-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Défaut de proportion entre différentes choses ou entre les parties d’une même chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disproportion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous devez savoir que cette loi agraire, dont vous avez tant parlé, n’est qu’un fantôme créé par les fripons pour épouvanter les imbéciles ; il ne fallait pas une révolution sans doute pour apprendre à l’univers que l’extrême disproportion des fortunes est la source de bien des maux et de bien des crimes, mais nous n’en sommes pas moins convaincus que l’é…
Travaillant douze et quatorze heures par jour, devant sa table de bois blanc, à la défense de la patrie en péril, cet humble secrétaire d’un comité de section ne voyait point de disproportion entre l’énormité de la tâche et la petitesse de ses moyens, tant il se sentait uni dans un commun effort à tous les patriotes, tant il faisait corps avec la nation,…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisproportion
- dipsroportion
- disporportion
- dispproportion
- disprooprtion
- disproporiton
- disproporrtion
- disproportino
- disproportionn
- disproportoin
- disproporttion
- dispropotrion
- dispropportion
- disproprotion
- disprpoortion
- disprroportion
- disrpoportion
- dissproportion
- dsiproportion
- idsproportion
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disproportion - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).