disruption
French, noun/di.sʁyp.sjɔ̃/
disruption is spelled D-I-S-R-U-P-T-I-O-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written French, the 69,707th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Disruption is a French feminine noun meaning “break; fracture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rupture, fracture”.
What does disruption mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininebreak; fracture
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rupture, fracture. 2. Interruption brutale du courant généré par le plasma thermonucléaire d’un tokamak. 3. Stratégie d’innovation par la remise en question des formes généralement pratiquées sur un marché, pour accoucher d’une « vision », créatrice de produits ou de services radicalement innovants. 4. Accélération de la société qui génère une perte de repères chez l’individu.
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 disruption
- disruptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disruption?
- /di.sʁyp.sjɔ̃/
- \dis.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disruption
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disruption in French?
disruption appears about once in every 4 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).