Non‐Gaussian tail in the force distribution: a hallmark of correlated disorder in the host media of elastic objects Jazmín Aragón Sánchez, Gonzalo Rumi, Raúl Cortés Maldonado, Néstor René Cejas Bolecek, Joaquín Puig, Pablo Pedrazzini, Gladys Nieva, Moira I. Dolz, Marcin Konczykowski, Cornelis J. van der Beek, Alejandro B. Kolton & Yanina Fasano Inferring the nature of disorder in the media where elastic objects are nucleated is of crucial importance for many applications but remains a challenging basic-science problem. Here we propose a method to discern whether weak-point or strong-correlated disorder dominates based on characterizing the distribution of the interaction forces between objects mapped in large fields-of-view. We illustrate our proposal with the case-study system of vortex structures nucleated in type-II superconductors with different pinning landscapes. Interaction force distributions are computed from individual vortex positions imaged in thousands-vortices ...