disposevsdisposéesWhich spelling fits?

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“dispose” and “disposées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#2,360
“dispose” frequency rank
#19,808
“disposées” frequency rank
22168
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature dispose disposées
Definition Féminin singulier de dispos. Féminin pluriel de disposé.

Where the eye mixes dispose and disposées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. dispose runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against disposées's 9 (CVCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
dispose
9 ch
disposées

Look-alike desk: dispose vs disposées

A purely visual mix-up. dispose (\dis.poz\) and disposées (\dis.pɔ.ze\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22168, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

dispose is recorded at frequency rank #2,360, classified as anadj, pronounced \dis.poz\. disposées is at rank #19,808, tagged as anadj, pronounced \dis.pɔ.ze\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 22168, this pair ranks #359,500 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of dispose vs disposées

Shared letters: deiops. Private to "dispose": -. Private to "disposées": é.

"dispose" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV  ·  "disposées" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • dispose ← ddispose · dipsose · disopse · dispoes · disposse · disppose · dispsoe · disspose

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "dispose" and "disposées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\dis.poz\ versus \dis.pɔ.ze\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "dispose" or "disposées"?
"dispose" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,360 in our French list, against #19,808 for "disposées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "dispose" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "disposées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #359,500 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "dispose" and "disposées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "disposées vs disposera". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #359,500 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list