doa
\do.a\
The verdict
“doa” is uncommon French (frequency #96,826 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,826
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l'indicatif présent de joan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doa · doa · French
doa · rank #96,826 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,826
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH divisaient
Nearest frequency peer: divisaient (-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 « doa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dilapidation
dilapidation
3,179 corpus weight
- divisaient
divisaient
3,176 corpus weight
- doa
doa
3,175 corpus weight
- doctrinaire
doctrinaire
3,174 corpus weight
- Doms
Doms
3,173 corpus weight
- doomsday
doomsday
3,172 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \do.a\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #96,826 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doa is uncommon French at frequency #96,826 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \do.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l'indicatif présent de joan.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for doa, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is doa, spelled D-O-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l'indicatif présent de joan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dena ondo doa.
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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