disquaire
\dis.kɛʁ\
The verdict
“disquaire” is uncommon French (frequency #57,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,874
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commerçant qui vend des disques ou tout support d’enregistrements sonores.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disquaire · disquaire · French
disquaire · rank #57,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,874
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disante
Nearest frequency peer: disante (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « disquaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dilater
dilater
42,130 corpus weight
- dimensionne…
dimensionnement
42,129 corpus weight
- disante
disante
42,128 corpus weight
- disquaire
disquaire
42,127 corpus weight
- dissocie
dissocie
42,126 corpus weight
- distrib
distrib
42,125 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disquaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disquaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disquaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disquaire is uncommon French at frequency #57,874 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.kɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
disquaire has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is disquaire, spelled D-I-S-Q-U-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Commerçant qui vend des disques ou tout support d’enregistrements sonores.
- 2Magasin qui vend des disques et autres enregistrements sonores.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disquaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À quinze ans ma mère m’a donné En cadeau d’anniversaire Tout Tchaïkovski dans un coffret Moi j’ai couru chez le disquaire Le lendemain pour l’échanger […]
Dans l’embrasure des disquaires, des punks à crête iroquoise, bracelets cloutés et blousons transpercés d’épingles à nourrice, sifflent des cannettes de bière en parlant fort.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).