disruptive
\dis.ʁyp.tiv\
The verdict
“disruptive” is uncommon French (frequency #79,223 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,223
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de disruptif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disruptive · disruptive · French
disruptive · rank #79,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,223
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dition
Nearest frequency peer: dition (+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 « disruptive »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dido
dido
20,781 corpus weight
- diffusaient
diffusaient
20,780 corpus weight
- disruptive
disruptive
20,778 corpus weight
- dition
dition
20,777 corpus weight
- divans
divans
20,776 corpus weight
- documentali…
documentalistes
20,775 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disruptive » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disruptive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dis.ʁyp.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disruptive » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disruptive is uncommon French at frequency #79,223 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dis.ʁyp.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de disruptif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for disruptive in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is disruptive, spelled D-I-S-R-U-P-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de disruptif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disruptive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La livrée disruptive est une livrée très colorée de divers poissons, reptiles et papillons, mais dont les bandes et les taches induisent en erreur les prédateurs quant à la position réelle du corps, ou tout au moins des organes vitaux.
L’industrie allemande a développé ces quatre-vingts dernières années une grande expertise dans l’innovation incrémentale, c’est-à-dire une amélioration progressive des produits existants, confirme Henrik Brandis, cofondateur du fonds de capital-risque Earlybird. Cette compétence n’est pas celle nécessaire pour produire de l’innovation disruptive, la seule…
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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