doctrine
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doctrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔk.tʁin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Maximes, 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.
- 2Idéologie, principes de base sur lesquels s’appuient une stratégie et des plans d’actions.
- 3Travaux 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
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Misspelling Variants of "doctrine"
Frequency rank: #6,389 in French
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