dysplasie
\dis.pla.zi\
The verdict
“dysplasie” is uncommon French (frequency #79,238 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,238
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Malformation ou déformation résultant d’une anomalie du développement d'un tissu ou d’un organe, qui survient au cours de la période embryonnaire ou après la naissance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dysplasie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pla.zi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dysplasie” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dysplasie is uncommon French at frequency #79,238 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.pla.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Malformation ou déformation résultant d’une anomalie du développement d'un tissu ou d’un organe, qui survient au cours de la période embryonnaire ou après la naissance.".
dysplasie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dysplasie, spelled D-Y-S-P-L-A-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Malformation ou déformation résultant d’une anomalie du développement d'un tissu ou d’un organe, qui survient au cours de la période embryonnaire ou après la naissance.
This word in other languages
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 “dysplasie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-Y-S-P-L-A-S-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dis.pla.zi\ (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.