doctrinaire
\dɔk.tʁi.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“doctrinaire” is uncommon French (frequency #96,827 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,827
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des hommes d’opinion modérée, qui, dans la première moitié du XIXᵉ siècle, se piquaient de subordonner leurs principes politiques à un ensemble de doctrines rigoureuses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doctrinaire · doctrinaire · French
doctrinaire · rank #96,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,827
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doa
Nearest frequency peer: doa (-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 « doctrinaire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divisaient
divisaient
3,176 corpus weight
- doa
doa
3,175 corpus weight
- doctrinaire
doctrinaire
3,174 corpus weight
- Doms
Doms
3,173 corpus weight
- doomsday
doomsday
3,172 corpus weight
- drawn
drawn
3,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doctrinaire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctrinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔk.tʁi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #96,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doctrinaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doctrinaire is uncommon French at frequency #96,827 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔk.tʁi.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for doctrinaire, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is doctrinaire, spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Un des hommes d’opinion modérée, qui, dans la première moitié du XIXᵉ siècle, se piquaient de subordonner leurs principes politiques à un ensemble de doctrines rigoureuses.
- 2Celui ou celle qui se fait remarquer par un attachement systématique à ses opinions et l’affirmation autoritaire de celles-ci.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doctrinaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Tu as tort de te rajeunir, lui disait son père. Si tu avais trente-six ans, ou du moins la mine revêche d’un doctrinaire, je pourrais te donner la position que je voudrais.
Il était chaussé de bottes à éperons, vêtu d’un pantalon gris, d’une redingote foncée ; le col de la chemise émergeait, très blanc, de la haute cravate noire à la doctrinaire.
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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