disserter
\di.sɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“disserter” is uncommon French (frequency #61,449 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,449
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire un développement le plus souvent oral sur une matière, une question, un ouvrage de l’esprit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-disserter · disserter · French
disserter · rank #61,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,449
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disqualifie
Nearest frequency peer: disqualifie (-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 « disserter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discover
discover
38,554 corpus weight
- disqualifie
disqualifie
38,553 corpus weight
- disserter
disserter
38,552 corpus weight
- divulguée
divulguée
38,551 corpus weight
- djellaba
djellaba
38,550 corpus weight
- doctrinal
doctrinal
38,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « disserter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | disserter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « disserter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
disserter is uncommon French at frequency #61,449 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.sɛʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire un développement le plus souvent oral sur une matière, une question, un ouvrage de l’esprit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for disserter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is disserter, spelled D-I-S-S-E-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire un développement le plus souvent oral sur une matière, une question, un ouvrage de l’esprit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disserter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a savamment disserté sur ce point de chronologie.
Au lieu de se prouver, comme jadis, par des faits, on le discute, on le disserte, on le met en discours de tribune.
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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