docilité
\dɔ.si.li.te\
The verdict
“docilité” is uncommon French (frequency #59,220 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,220
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de celui, de celle ou de ceux, qui sont dociles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-docilite · docilité · French
docilité · rank #59,220 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,220
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dil
Nearest frequency peer: dil (-2 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 « docilité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DesRochers
DesRochers
40,785 corpus weight
- diktats
diktats
40,784 corpus weight
- dil
dil
40,783 corpus weight
- docilité
docilité
40,781 corpus weight
- Dombasle
Dombasle
40,779 corpus weight
- Doncaster
Doncaster
40,778 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « docilité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | docilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.si.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « docilité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
docilité is uncommon French at frequency #59,220 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.si.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de celui, de celle ou de ceux, qui sont dociles.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for docilité, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is docilité, spelled D-O-C-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de celui, de celle ou de ceux, qui sont dociles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how docilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'eus le fouet ; l'air bonasse du fouetteur me fît d'abord penser que c'était pour éprouver ma docilité ; mais la réalité me détrompa. Je fus surpris une seconde fois ; les autres, jamais l'abbé ne me tint ; dès que je l'avais entrevu, je m'échappais.
Durant ces quelques minutes de préparation, le maquignon a le soin d’énumérer toutes ses qualités : son ardeur, si l’on veut une bête fringante ; sa docilité, si l’on désire un cheval de dame ou de famille.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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