disquette
\dis.kɛt\
The verdict
“disquette” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,374. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,374
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit disque souple enfermé dans une enveloppe rigide, utilisé en informatique comme moyen amovible de stockage d’information.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disquette · disquette · French
disquette · rank #32,374 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,374
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominait
Nearest frequency peer: dominait (+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 « disquette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- destructeurs
destructeurs
67,632 corpus weight
- didi
didi
67,631 corpus weight
- discutons
discutons
67,629 corpus weight
- disquette
disquette
67,627 corpus weight
- dominait
dominait
67,626 corpus weight
- dresseur
dresseur
67,625 corpus weight
What this shows « disquette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #32,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « disquette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around disquette (IPA \dis.kɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,374 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit disque souple enfermé dans une enveloppe rigide, utilisé en informatique comme moyen amovible de stockage d’information.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for disquette, with forms such as "ddisquette", "diqsuette", and "disqeutte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "disquettes", "disette", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is disquette, spelled D-I-S-Q-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Petit disque souple enfermé dans une enveloppe rigide, utilisé en informatique comme moyen amovible de stockage d’information.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disquette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, il fonctionne à l’aide d’une disquette et d’un micro-ordinateur de marque Macintosh.
Il faut insérer une disquette, attendre que la machine bourdonne, en insérer une seconde puis retirer la première.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddisquette
- diqsuette
- disqeutte
- disqquette
- disquete
- disquetet
- disqutete
- dissquette
- disuqette
- dsiquette
- idsquette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of disquette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).