disputaient

\dis.py.tɛ\

/\dis.py.tɛ\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « disputaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

disputaient vs disputent
82% similar
disputaient vs disputait
82% similar
disputaient vs disputant
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for disputaient
PropertyValue
Headworddisputaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dis.py.tɛ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#33,642
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disputaient »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).disputaientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « disperse » (#33,641), « dièse » (#33,643), « Dole » (#33,644). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « disputaient » est au #33,642. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de disputer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how disputaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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
  2. 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.

ddisputaient1dipsutaient2dispputaient1disptuaient2dispuatient2disputaeint2disputaiennt1disputaientt1
Edit distance from "disputaient"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disputaient"?
"disputaient" is spelled D-I-S-P-U-T-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dis.py.tɛ\.
What does "disputaient" mean?
As a verb, "disputaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de disputer.
What words are commonly confused with "disputaient"?
"disputaient" is commonly confused with "disputent", "disputait", "disputant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "disputaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "disputaient" is \dis.py.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "disputaient" come from?
"disputaient" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "disputaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list