disque

/\disk\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,668

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

disque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Palet circulaire utilisé pour le lancer du disque. Pronounced \disk\. It ranks #2,668 in French word frequency. Often confused with disques and dise.

Key facts for disque
PropertyValue
Headworddisque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\disk\
Letters6
Frequency rank#2,668
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of disque in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for disque is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \disk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,668 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for disque, with forms such as "ddisque", "diqsue", and "disqeu". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "disques", "dise", "digue", 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 disque, spelled D-I-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Palet circulaire utilisé pour le lancer du disque.
  2. 2
    Disque intervertébral. Cartilage entre deux vertèbres.
  3. 3
    Surface délimitée par un cercle.
  4. 4
    Surface visible des grands astres, qui, à nos yeux, paraissent ronds et plats.
  5. 5
    Partie des fleurs radiées qui en occupe le centre.
  6. 6
    Partie élargie et membraneuse d’une feuille.
  7. 7
    Signal commandant une marche à vue suivie d’un arrêt avant le premier appareil de voie.
  8. 8
    Pièce sur laquelle se fait, par frottement, la déperdition de chaleur liée au freinage.
  9. 9
    Pièce rotative, et coupante ou abrasive, utilisée sur une meuleuse, un disque abrasif, un disque à tronçonner, un disque diamant
  10. 10
    Support d’enregistrement musical de la forme d’un très mince cylindre.
  11. 11
    Cultivateur-tasseur.
  12. 12
    Situation ou propos qui se répète de façon lassante ; rengaine.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddisque,diqsue,disqeu,disqque,dissque,disuqe,dsique,idsque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for disque

Misspelling Variants of "disque"

ddisque7diqsue6disqeu6disqque7dissque7disuqe6dsique6idsque6
Misspelling Variants of "disque"

Frequency rank: #2,668 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "disque"?
"disque" is spelled D-I-S-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \disk\.
What does "disque" mean?
As a noun, "disque" means: Palet circulaire utilisé pour le lancer du disque.
What words are commonly confused with "disque"?
"disque" is commonly confused with "disques", "dise", "digue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "disque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "disque" is \disk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "disque" come from?
"disque" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.