dissension
\di.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dissension” is uncommon French (frequency #65,083 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,083
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dissentiment violent, mais passager, d’opinions, de sentiments, d’intérêts entre deux ou plusieurs personnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissension · dissension · French
dissension · rank #65,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,083
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disquaires
Nearest frequency peer: disquaires (-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 « dissension »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dimensionné
dimensionné
34,921 corpus weight
- disjoncteurs
disjoncteurs
34,920 corpus weight
- disquaires
disquaires
34,919 corpus weight
- dissension
dissension
34,918 corpus weight
- dithyrambiq…
dithyrambique
34,916 corpus weight
- divague
divague
34,915 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dissension » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissension |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dissension » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dissension is uncommon French at frequency #65,083 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dissentiment violent, mais passager, d’opinions, de sentiments, d’intérêts entre deux ou plusieurs personnes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dissension, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dissension, spelled D-I-S-S-E-N-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Dissentiment violent, mais passager, d’opinions, de sentiments, d’intérêts entre deux ou plusieurs personnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissension appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sorcière ou non, il vaut mieux que cette misérable fille meure que de voir Bois-Guilbert perdu pour l’ordre des templiers, ou l’ordre divisé par des dissensions intestines.
Ce fut pendant son généralat que le jansénisme commença à prendre racine dans cette congrégation, et à y occasionner quelques dissensions intérieures.
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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