dissuade
\di.sɥad\
The verdict
“dissuade” is uncommon French (frequency #50,774 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,774
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dissuader.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissuade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \di.sɥad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dissuade” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dissuade is uncommon French at frequency #50,774 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \di.sɥad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for dissuade in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dissuade, spelled D-I-S-S-U-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dissuader.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de dissuader.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dissuader.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de dissuader.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de dissuader.
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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Using “dissuade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-I-S-S-U-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \di.sɥad\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.