disputaient
\dis.py.tɛ\
The verdict
“disputaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,642. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,642
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de disputer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disputaient · disputaient · French
disputaient · rank #33,642 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,642
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disperse
Nearest frequency peer: disperse (-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 « disputaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- DGSE
DGSE
66,362 corpus weight
- disperse
disperse
66,360 corpus weight
- disputaient
disputaient
66,359 corpus weight
- dièse
dièse
66,358 corpus weight
- Dole
Dole
66,357 corpus weight
- dominos
dominos
66,356 corpus weight
What this shows « disputaient » 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 | disputaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.py.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #33,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disputaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around disputaient (IPA \dis.py.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,642 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de disputer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for disputaient, with forms such as "ddisputaient", "dipsutaient", and "dispputaient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "disputent", "disputait", "disputant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is disputaient, spelled D-I-S-P-U-T-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de disputer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disputaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il fait si chaud que les rouquins anglais qui ne bronzent jamais portent des bracelets éponge comme s’ils disputaient Wimbledon un jour de canicule
Déjà mademoiselle courait en bas désamorcer un conflit entre deux emphytéotes, l’un polonais, l’autre ruthène, qui se disputaient la jouissance d’une mare et des carpes qu’on y pêchait.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisputaient
- dipsutaient
- dispputaient
- disptuaient
- dispuatient
- disputaeint
- disputaiennt
- disputaientt
- disputaietn
- disputainet
- disputiaent
- disputtaient
- dissputaient
- disuptaient
- dsiputaient
- idsputaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disputaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).