dissent
\dis\
The verdict
“dissent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,618
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de dire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissent · dissent · French
dissent · rank #86,618 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,618
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disputez
Nearest frequency peer: disputez (-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 « dissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disert
disert
13,386 corpus weight
- dispendieus…
dispendieuses
13,385 corpus weight
- disputez
disputez
13,384 corpus weight
- dissent
dissent
13,383 corpus weight
- distension
distension
13,382 corpus weight
- distortion
distortion
13,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #86,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dissent is uncommon French at frequency #86,618 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de dire.".
dissent has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dissent, spelled D-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait du subjonctif de dire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'aurais voulu qu'ils se missent en colère, qu'ils me dissent des injures ou qu'ils me montrassent le poing, car c'était leur impassibilité qui me rendait fou.
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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