dispute
French, noun
dispute is spelled D-I-S-P-U-T-E (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dispute is a French feminine noun meaning “dispute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, disputé is a different word: “past participle of disputer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Discussion plus ou moins vive à propos d’opinions, d’intérêts”.
What does dispute mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedispute
verb
- 1
past participle of disputer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Discussion plus ou moins vive à propos d’opinions, d’intérêts. 2. Altercation violente, querelle. 3. Discussion, débat publics qui se faisaient dans les écoles, pour trancher les questions de théologie, de philosophie, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dispute
- disputes plural
- disputée feminine
- disputés masculine plural
- disputées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dispute
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dispute in French?
dispute appears 13 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).