doctrine

/\dɔk.tʁin\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,389

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

doctrine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maximes, opinions, notions, postulées vraies, qui permettent d’orienter l’action humaine et d’interpréter les faits. Dogme auquel on adhère, auquel on croit ou que l’on enseigne. Pronounced \dɔk.tʁin\. It ranks #6,389 in French word frequency. Often confused with doctrines.

Key facts for doctrine
PropertyValue
Headworddoctrine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔk.tʁin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,389
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of doctrine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for doctrine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔk.tʁin\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,389 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for doctrine, with forms such as "dcotrine", "ddoctrine", and "docctrine". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "doctrines", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is doctrine, spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maximes, opinions, notions, postulées vraies, qui permettent d’orienter l’action humaine et d’interpréter les faits. Dogme auquel on adhère, auquel on croit ou que l’on enseigne.
  2. 2
    Idéologie, principes de base sur lesquels s’appuient une stratégie et des plans d’actions.
  3. 3
    Travaux juridiques destinés à interpréter le droit.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcotrine,ddoctrine,docctrine,docrtine,doctirne,doctrien,doctrinne,doctrnie,doctrrine,docttrine,dotcrine,odctrine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doctrine

Misspelling Variants of "doctrine"

dcotrine8ddoctrine9docctrine9docrtine8doctirne8doctrien8doctrinne9doctrnie8
Misspelling Variants of "doctrine"

Frequency rank: #6,389 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doctrine"?
"doctrine" is spelled D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔk.tʁin\.
What does "doctrine" mean?
As a noun, "doctrine" means: Maximes, opinions, notions, postulées vraies, qui permettent d’orienter l’action humaine et d’interpréter les faits. Dogme auquel on adhère, auquel on croit ou que l’on enseigne.
What words are commonly confused with "doctrine"?
"doctrine" is commonly confused with "doctrines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doctrine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doctrine" is \dɔk.tʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doctrine" come from?
"doctrine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.