dissonance
\di.sɔ.nɑ̃s\
The verdict
“dissonance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,289. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,289
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faux accord, relation d’un son à un autre avec lequel il n’est pas consonant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissonance · dissonance · French
dissonance · rank #42,289 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,289
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disquettes
Nearest frequency peer: disquettes (-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 « dissonance »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Dionne
Dionne
57,716 corpus weight
- disions
disions
57,715 corpus weight
- disjoncteur
disjoncteur
57,714 corpus weight
- disquettes
disquettes
57,713 corpus weight
- dissonance
dissonance
57,712 corpus weight
- distraite
distraite
57,711 corpus weight
What this shows « dissonance » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissonance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.sɔ.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #42,289 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dissonance »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around dissonance (IPA \di.sɔ.nɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,289 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for dissonance, with forms such as "ddissonance", "disonance", and "disosnance". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dissonance, spelled D-I-S-S-O-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Faux accord, relation d’un son à un autre avec lequel il n’est pas consonant.
- 2Disparité de ton, de style, de comportement, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissonance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La septième est une dissonance.
Depuis sept ans, jamais il ne lui est échappé une parole, un sentiment, un geste, qui pussent produire une dissonance avec la divine harmonie de ses discours, de ses caresses et de son amour.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddissonance
- disonance
- disosnance
- dissnoance
- dissoannce
- dissonacne
- dissonancce
- dissonanec
- dissonannce
- dissonnace
- dissonnance
- dsisonance
- idssonance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dissonance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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