disrupter
French, verb/di.sʁyp.te/
disrupter is spelled D-I-S-R-U-P-T-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disrupter is a French verb meaning “to disrupt an economic model by disruptive innovation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bouleverser par un changement radical (économique, technique, etc.) un produit ou un marché”.
What does disrupter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to disrupt an economic model by disruptive innovation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Bouleverser par un changement radical (économique, technique, etc.) un produit ou un marché.
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 disrupter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- disruptant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- disrupté participle past
- disrupte first-person indicative present
- disruptes indicative present second-person
- disruptons first-person indicative plural
- disruptez indicative plural present
- disruptent indicative plural present
- disruptais first-person imperfect indicative
- disruptait imperfect indicative singular
- disruptions first-person imperfect indicative
- disruptiez imperfect indicative plural
- disruptaient imperfect indicative plural
- disruptai first-person historic indicative
- disruptas historic indicative past
- disrupta historic indicative past
- disruptâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disrupter?
- /di.sʁyp.te/
- \dis.ʁyp.te\
- [disʁypte]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disrupter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disrupter in French?
disrupter appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).