dissymétrie
\di.si.me.tʁi\
The verdict
“dissymétrie” is uncommon French (frequency #81,069 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,069
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défaut de symétrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dissymetrie · dissymétrie · French
dissymétrie · rank #81,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,069
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disposions
Nearest frequency peer: disposions (-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 « dissymétrie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diseuse
diseuse
18,935 corpus weight
- disloquée
disloquée
18,934 corpus weight
- disposions
disposions
18,933 corpus weight
- dissymétrie
dissymétrie
18,932 corpus weight
- Dniepr
Dniepr
18,931 corpus weight
- dopant
dopant
18,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dissymétrie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dissymétrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.si.me.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dissymétrie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dissymétrie is uncommon French at frequency #81,069 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.si.me.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Défaut de symétrie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dissymétrie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dissymétrie, spelled D-I-S-S-Y-M-É-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Défaut de symétrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dissymétrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Maigret remarqua une dissymétrie qu’il était difficile de localiser, mais qui donnait quelque chose de trouble à sa physionomie.
L’iode est indispensable pour notre organisme. Une étude sur son taux d’absorption par voie orale montre l’existence d’une relation quasi linéaire entre moyenne et médiane, qui traduit dans ce cas particulier une dissymétrie dans la distribution.
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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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