doctorats
\dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\
The verdict
“doctorats” is uncommon French (frequency #50,171 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,171
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de doctorat.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doctorats · doctorats · French
doctorats · rank #50,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,171
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH docteure
Nearest frequency peer: docteure (-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 « doctorats »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dissuasive
dissuasive
49,833 corpus weight
- divas
divas
49,832 corpus weight
- docteure
docteure
49,831 corpus weight
- doctorats
doctorats
49,830 corpus weight
- Domitien
Domitien
49,829 corpus weight
- draco
draco
49,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doctorats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctorats |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doctorats » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doctorats is uncommon French at frequency #50,171 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔk.tɔ.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de doctorat.".
doctorats has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is doctorats, spelled D-O-C-T-O-R-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de doctorat.
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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