docteurs
\dɔk.tœʁ\
The verdict
“docteurs” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,309. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,309
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de docteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-docteurs · docteurs · French
docteurs · rank #10,309 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,309
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH djihadistes
Nearest frequency peer: djihadistes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « docteurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dentaire
dentaire
89,695 corpus weight
- diamants
diamants
89,694 corpus weight
- djihadistes
djihadistes
89,693 corpus weight
- docteurs
docteurs
89,692 corpus weight
- Dunkerque
Dunkerque
89,691 corpus weight
- dynastie
dynastie
89,690 corpus weight
What this shows « docteurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | docteurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔk.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « docteurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around docteurs (IPA \dɔk.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,309 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de docteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for docteurs, with forms such as "dcoteurs", "ddocteurs", and "doccteurs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "douleurs", "donneurs", "douceurs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is docteurs, spelled D-O-C-T-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de docteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how docteurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez les Juifs on donnait ce nom à des espèces de docteurs qui se divisaient en trois classes : les scribes du sanhédrin, qui n’étaient que des greffiers de ce tribunal; les scribes de la loi, dont les décisions étaient exécutées à l’égal de la loi elle-même, et les scribes du peuple, véritables magistrats prononçant des sentences dans les affaires privée…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcoteurs
- ddocteurs
- doccteurs
- doceturs
- docterus
- docteurrs
- docteurss
- docteusr
- doctteurs
- doctuers
- dotceurs
- odcteurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of docteurs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).