doctorat
\dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“doctorat” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,682. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,682
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grade de docteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doctorat · doctorat · French
doctorat · rank #7,682 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,682
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH disputer
Nearest frequency peer: disputer (-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 « doctorat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diminué
diminué
92,322 corpus weight
- directive
directive
92,321 corpus weight
- disputer
disputer
92,320 corpus weight
- doctorat
doctorat
92,319 corpus weight
- déroulement
déroulement
92,318 corpus weight
- effondrement
effondrement
92,317 corpus weight
What this shows « doctorat » 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 | doctorat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doctorat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around doctorat (IPA \dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,682 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for doctorat, with forms such as "dcotorat", "ddoctorat", and "docctorat". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "doctor", "doctorant", "doctorale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is doctorat, spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-A-T.
Definition
- 1Grade de docteur.
- 2Formation d’un étudiant au grade de docteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doctorat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le père de Laforgue, qui s'était depuis quelque temps consolé du refus de son fils d'entrer à Polytechnique, lui parlait d'une thèse de doctorat, après l'agrégation : […].
On eut toutes les peines du monde à faire comprendre à l'autocrate que le triste régime dont nous étions dotés interdisait à un ministre, voire à un président de la République, d'octroyer le doctorat en médecine à un quidam incapable de passer le moindre examen.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dcotorat
- ddoctorat
- docctorat
- docotrat
- doctoart
- doctoratt
- doctorrat
- doctorta
- doctroat
- docttorat
- dotcorat
- odctorat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doctorat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doctorat", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).