doch
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#98,976
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
doch is aFrenchparticle. It means: Cependant, bien, donc, pourtant… (Marque l’opposition tranchée avec l’idée principale de la phrase) Pronounced \dɔx\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | \dɔx\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for doch is 4 letters long, classified as aparticle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔx\. Corpus data places it at rank #98,976 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for doch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is doch, spelled D-O-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cependant, bien, donc, pourtant… (Marque l’opposition tranchée avec l’idée principale de la phrase)
- 2Intensifie le sens de la phrase sans spécialement se traduire. Dans ce cas, il n’est jamais en début de phrase, n’est jamais marqué ni accentué, et provoque parfois l’inversion du verbe et du sujet.
- 3Intensifie une affirmation ou une négation.
- 4Intensifie un ordre.
- 5Intensifie un souhait, un désir.
- 6Intensifie simplement le sens du verbe.
- 7Intensifie aussi une interrogation.
- 8Si, (réponse affirmative à une question négative).
- 9(Expressions)
- 10Quand même. (Chose étonnante.)
Frequency rank: #98,976 in French
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