dissertation
\di.sɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“dissertation” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,986
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Développement le plus souvent écrit dans lequel on examine en détail une matière, une question, un ouvrage de l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissertation · dissertation · French
dissertation · rank #18,986 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,986
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH discount
Nearest frequency peer: discount (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissertation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- didactique
didactique
81,018 corpus weight
- dignement
dignement
81,017 corpus weight
- discount
discount
81,016 corpus weight
- dissertation
dissertation
81,015 corpus weight
- dissout
dissout
81,014 corpus weight
- Diva
Diva
81,013 corpus weight
What this shows « dissertation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissertation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #18,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissertation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around dissertation (IPA \di.sɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,986 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissertation, with forms such as "ddissertation", "disertation", and "disesrtation". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "dissertations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dissertation, spelled D-I-S-S-E-R-T-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Développement le plus souvent écrit dans lequel on examine en détail une matière, une question, un ouvrage de l’esprit.
- 2Composition que fait un élève au lycée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissertation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En écoutant la dissertation de deux bourgeois, il entrevit un moyen de fortune, et devint à la fois armateur, banquier, propriétaire.
[…]; les propagateurs de réformes sociales, les utopistes et les démocrates avaient fait un tel abus de la Justice qu'on était en droit de regarder toute dissertation sur un tel sujet comme un exercice de rhétorique ou comme une sophistique destinée à égarer les personnes qui s'occupaient du mouvement ouvrier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissertation
- disertation
- disesrtation
- disserattion
- disserrtation
- dissertaiton
- dissertatino
- dissertationn
- dissertatoin
- dissertattion
- disserttaion
- disserttation
- dissetration
- dissretation
- dsisertation
- idssertation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissertation - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).