doctoral
\dɔk.tɔ.ʁal\
The verdict
“doctoral” is uncommon French (frequency #57,214 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,214
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au doctorat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doctoral · doctoral · French
doctoral · rank #57,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,214
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissidentes
Nearest frequency peer: dissidentes (-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 « doctoral »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dilate
dilate
42,790 corpus weight
- diluviennes
diluviennes
42,789 corpus weight
- dissidentes
dissidentes
42,788 corpus weight
- doctoral
doctoral
42,787 corpus weight
- dressez
dressez
42,786 corpus weight
- drôlerie
drôlerie
42,785 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doctoral » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctoral |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔk.tɔ.ʁal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doctoral » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doctoral is uncommon French at frequency #57,214 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔk.tɔ.ʁal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for doctoral in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is doctoral, spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au doctorat.
- 2Qui appartient à un docteur.
- 3Qualifie le ton tranchant, la suffisance de certains savants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doctoral appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
École doctorale des sciences juridiques, politiques et de gestion.
Robe doctorale. - Bonnet doctoral.
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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