dystopie

\dis.tɔ.pi\

/\dis.tɔ.pi\/ noun

The verdict

“dystopie” is uncommon French (frequency #59,962 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,962
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anomalie ou irrégularité congénitale dans la position anatomique d’un organe du corps (dent, rein, testicule, etc.).

Corpus desk

Index FR-dystopie · dystopie · French

dystopie · rank #59,962 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,962
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH débarquée

Nearest frequency peer: débarquée (+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 « dystopie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dystopie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dystopie
PropertyValue
Headworddystopie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dis.tɔ.pi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#59,962
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dystopie » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).dystopietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « débarquée » (#59,963), « décevez » (#59,964), « Dresden » (#59,959). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dystopie » est au #59,962. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dystopie is uncommon French at frequency #59,962 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dis.tɔ.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

dystopie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dystopie, spelled D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Anomalie ou irrégularité congénitale dans la position anatomique d’un organe du corps (dent, rein, testicule, etc.).
  2. 2
    Forme de récit de fiction, se déroulant dans une société imaginaire sombre, visant à en dénoncer les défauts.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dystopie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au cœur de cette dystopie d’un monde en perdition, entre menaces sur l’environnement, désastres économiques et complots politiques, Wallace trace un tableau sinistre des failles d’une société […]
  2. La télévision de 2022 n’est pas avare en dystopies.

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dystopie"?
"dystopie" is spelled D-Y-S-T-O-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dis.tɔ.pi\.
What does "dystopie" mean?
As a noun, "dystopie" means: Anomalie ou irrégularité congénitale dans la position anatomique d’un organe du corps (dent, rein, testicule, etc.).
How do you pronounce "dystopie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dystopie" is \dis.tɔ.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dystopie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list