doctrinal
\dɔk.tʁi.nal\
The verdict
“doctrinal” is uncommon French (frequency #61,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui reproduit les maximes, les principes de telle ou telle doctrine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doctrinal · doctrinal · French
doctrinal · rank #61,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,452
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH djellaba
Nearest frequency peer: djellaba (-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 « doctrinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disserter
disserter
38,552 corpus weight
- divulguée
divulguée
38,551 corpus weight
- djellaba
djellaba
38,550 corpus weight
- doctrinal
doctrinal
38,549 corpus weight
- Dolto
Dolto
38,548 corpus weight
- dormants
dormants
38,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doctrinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctrinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔk.tʁi.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doctrinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doctrinal is uncommon French at frequency #61,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔk.tʁi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for doctrinal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is doctrinal, spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui reproduit les maximes, les principes de telle ou telle doctrine.
- 2Relatif à une pensée directrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doctrinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avis doctrinal.
Jugement doctrinal.
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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