disruption
\dis.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“disruption” is uncommon French (frequency #69,755 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,755
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rupture, fracture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disruption · disruption · French
disruption · rank #69,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,755
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dispensation
Nearest frequency peer: dispensation (-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 « disruption »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discordance
discordance
30,249 corpus weight
- diseases
diseases
30,248 corpus weight
- dispensation
dispensation
30,247 corpus weight
- disruption
disruption
30,246 corpus weight
- dissociée
dissociée
30,245 corpus weight
- dissolvent
dissolvent
30,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disruption » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disruption |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disruption » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disruption is uncommon French at frequency #69,755 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.ʁyp.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for disruption, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is disruption, spelled D-I-S-R-U-P-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Rupture, fracture.
- 2Interruption brutale du courant généré par le plasma thermonucléaire d’un tokamak.
- 3Stratégie 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.
- 4Accélération de la société qui génère une perte de repères chez l’individu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disruption appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
II paroît qu’à l’époque de la disruption des roches calcaires contre les roches schisteuses.
Étude d'une méthode d'amortissement des disruptions d'un plasma de tokamak.
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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