disputer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,681
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
disputer is aFrenchverb. It means: Être en discussion plus ou moins vive à propos d’opinions, d’intérêts. Pronounced \dis.py.te\. It ranks #7,681 in French word frequency. Often confused with disputes and disputera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disputer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis.py.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,681 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for disputer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dis.py.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,681 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for disputer, with forms such as "ddisputer", "dipsuter", and "dispputer". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "disputes", "disputera", "dispute", 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 disputer, spelled D-I-S-P-U-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être en discussion plus ou moins vive à propos d’opinions, d’intérêts.
- 2Contester pour obtenir ou pour conserver quelque chose.
- 3Soutenir avec force son opinion, ses intérêts ou ceux d’autrui.
- 4Gronder ; réprimander.
- 5Soutenir une compétition ; lutter pour la victoire.
- 6Se quereller.
- 7Raisonner, argumenter pour ou contre sur un sujet donné.
- 8Débattre au sujet de quelque chose.
- 9S’emploie pour exprimer que les choses ou les personnes dont il s’agit paraissent avoir des qualités si égales que l’on ne sait laquelle l’emporte.
- 10Prétendre égaler quelqu'un en quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddisputer,dipsuter,dispputer,disptuer,dispuetr,disputerr,disputre,disputter,dissputer,disupter,dsiputer,idsputer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disputer
Misspelling Variants of "disputer"
Frequency rank: #7,681 in French
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