dissident
\di.si.dɑ̃\
The verdict
“dissident” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,037
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est en désaccord.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissident · dissident · French
dissident · rank #27,037 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,037
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diabétique
Nearest frequency peer: diabétique (-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 « dissident »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Delle
Delle
72,967 corpus weight
- destructrice
destructrice
72,966 corpus weight
- diabétique
diabétique
72,965 corpus weight
- dissident
dissident
72,964 corpus weight
- doi
doi
72,963 corpus weight
- douanière
douanière
72,962 corpus weight
What this shows « dissident » 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 | dissident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \di.si.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissident »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around dissident (IPA \di.si.dɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,037 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissident, with forms such as "ddissident", "disident", and "disisdent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "dissidents", "dissidente", "disaient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dissident, spelled D-I-S-S-I-D-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est en désaccord.
- 2Qui professe une doctrine, une opinion différente de celle du plus grand nombre.
- 3Membre de la Petite Église, dans l'ouest de la France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissident appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutes les voix, moins deux, proclamèrent Andermatt président. Les deux voix dissidentes, celles du paysan et de son fils, avaient désigné Oriol.
Chez les peuples protestants, il y a d'autant plus d'ardeur morale que l’Église établie est plus fortement battue en brèche par des sectes dissidentes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissident
- disident
- disisdent
- dissdient
- dissiddent
- dissidennt
- dissidentt
- dissidetn
- dissidnet
- dissiednt
- dsisident
- idssident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissident - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).