disséminer
\di.se.mi.ne\
The verdict
“disséminer” is uncommon French (frequency #67,446 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,446
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Semer çà et là, éparpiller, répandre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disseminer · disséminer · French
disséminer · rank #67,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,446
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissimulait
Nearest frequency peer: dissimulait (-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 « disséminer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dirigeais
dirigeais
32,558 corpus weight
- discontinu
discontinu
32,557 corpus weight
- dissimulait
dissimulait
32,556 corpus weight
- disséminer
disséminer
32,555 corpus weight
- Djamila
Djamila
32,554 corpus weight
- domiciliées
domiciliées
32,551 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disséminer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disséminer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.se.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #67,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disséminer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disséminer is uncommon French at frequency #67,446 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.se.mi.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Semer çà et là, éparpiller, répandre.".
disséminer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is disséminer, spelled D-I-S-S-É-M-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Semer çà et là, éparpiller, répandre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disséminer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’après une étude réalisée en Côte d’Ivoire, dans les lieux où les éléphants avaient disparu depuis longtemps on ne trouvait plus de plants de certaines espèces forestières qu’ils ont coutume de disséminer (Alexandre, 1978).
Les communes rurales y sont bien rarement groupées; elles sont au contraire disséminées, sur l’immense et fécond plateau, en un éparpillement de fermes.
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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