dissipent

\di.sip\

/\di.sip\/ verb

The verdict

“dissipent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,992 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,992
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dissiper.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dissipent · dissipent · French

dissipent · rank #68,992 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,992
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dispersant

Nearest frequency peer: dispersant (-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 « dissipent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dissipent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dissipent
PropertyValue
Headworddissipent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\di.sip\
Letters9
Frequency rank#68,992
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dissipent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dissipenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « dispersant » (#68,991), « dissèque » (#68,993), « divaguer » (#68,994). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dissipent » est au #68,992. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dissipent is uncommon French at frequency #68,992 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.sip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

dissipent has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dissipent, spelled D-I-S-S-I-P-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dissiper.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dissiper.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dissipent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Une période de croissance lente sera nécessaire avant que les tensions inflationnistes ne se dissipent et que la Banque centrale puisse abaisser les taux d’intérêt, permettant ainsi au taux de change de se déprécier.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dissipent"?
"dissipent" is spelled D-I-S-S-I-P-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \di.sip\.
What does "dissipent" mean?
As a verb, "dissipent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dissiper.
How do you pronounce "dissipent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dissipent" is \di.sip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dissipent" come from?
"dissipent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dissipent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list