doch

/\dɔx\/ particle

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\.

Key facts for doch
PropertyValue
Headworddoch
LanguageFrench
Part of speechParticle
IPA\dɔx\
Letters4
Frequency rank#98,976
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of doch in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Cependant, bien, donc, pourtant… (Marque l’opposition tranchée avec l’idée principale de la phrase)
  2. 2
    Intensifie 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.
  3. 3
    Intensifie une affirmation ou une négation.
  4. 4
    Intensifie un ordre.
  5. 5
    Intensifie un souhait, un désir.
  6. 6
    Intensifie simplement le sens du verbe.
  7. 7
    Intensifie aussi une interrogation.
  8. 8
    Si, (réponse affirmative à une question négative).
  9. 9
    (Expressions)
  10. 10
    Quand même. (Chose étonnante.)

Frequency rank: #98,976 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doch"?
"doch" is spelled D-O-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔx\.
What does "doch" mean?
As a particle, "doch" means: Cependant, bien, donc, pourtant… (Marque l’opposition tranchée avec l’idée principale de la phrase)
How do you pronounce "doch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doch" is \dɔx\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doch" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.