dissimuler
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,012
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
dissimuler is aFrenchverb. It means: Cacher ses sentiments, ses desseins ou, par une conduite réservée, artificieuse, ne pas les laisser apercevoir. Pronounced \di.si.my.le\. Often confused with dissimulé and dissimulée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissimuler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.si.my.le\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dissimuler is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \di.si.my.le\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,012 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for dissimuler, with forms such as "ddissimuler", "disimuler", and "disismuler". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dissimulé", "dissimulée", "dissimulées", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dissimuler, spelled D-I-S-S-I-M-U-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cacher ses sentiments, ses desseins ou, par une conduite réservée, artificieuse, ne pas les laisser apercevoir.
- 2Faire semblant de ne pas remarquer, de ne pas ressentir quelque chose.
- 3Rendre moins apparent ou invisible ; cacher.
- 4Ne pas s’avouer quelque chose ; ne pas le reconnaître.
- 5Se cacher.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddissimuler,disimuler,disismuler,dissimluer,dissimmuler,dissimuelr,dissimulerr,dissimuller,dissimulre,dissiumler,dissmiuler,dsisimuler,idssimuler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dissimuler
Misspelling Variants of "dissimuler"
Frequency rank: #14,012 in French
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