dissimilitude
\di.si.mi.li.tyd\
The verdict
“dissimilitude” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absence ou manque de similitude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissimilitude · dissimilitude · French
dissimilitude · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissimilitude |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.si.mi.li.tyd\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
dissimilitude is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.si.mi.li.tyd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Absence ou manque de similitude.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dissimilitude, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 dissimilitude, spelled D-I-S-S-I-M-I-L-I-T-U-D-E.
Definition
- 1Absence ou manque de similitude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissimilitude appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le second état de la gravure présente une dissimilitude frappante avec le premier.
1. beaucoup de grammairiens ont agité la question de savoir si, dans la déclinaison des mots, il faut suivre la dissimilitude ou la similitude, c’est-à-dire, en d’autres termes, l’anomalie ou l’analogie.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.