dyspnée
\dis.pne\
The verdict
“dyspnée” is uncommon French (frequency #72,262 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,262
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gêne ou difficulté respiratoire pouvant être subjective. En pratique, elle définit tout écart par rapport au rythme respiratoire normal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dyspnee · dyspnée · French
dyspnée · rank #72,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,262
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH déambulant
Nearest frequency peer: déambulant (+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 « dyspnée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- drome
drome
27,742 corpus weight
- Duchêne
Duchêne
27,741 corpus weight
- dyspnée
dyspnée
27,739 corpus weight
- déambulant
déambulant
27,738 corpus weight
- déambulateur
déambulateur
27,737 corpus weight
- déboutée
déboutée
27,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dyspnée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dyspnée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dis.pne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dyspnée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dyspnée is uncommon French at frequency #72,262 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.pne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gêne ou difficulté respiratoire pouvant être subjective. En pratique, elle définit tout écart par rapport au rythme respiratoire normal.".
dyspnée has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 dyspnée, spelled D-Y-S-P-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Gêne ou difficulté respiratoire pouvant être subjective. En pratique, elle définit tout écart par rapport au rythme respiratoire normal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dyspnée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans certains cas, on observe en outre de la céphalalgie, de la dyspnée, du coma, symptômes qui sont presque toujours sous la dépendance de l’urémie occasionnée par la néphrite.
Les maladies affectant les poumons et la paroi interne de la cavité thoracique entraînent des difficultés respiratoires désignées sous le terme de dyspnée.
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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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