document

/\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,361

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

document is aFrenchnoun. It means: Écrit qui sert de preuve ou de renseignement. Pronounced \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\. It ranks #2,361 in French word frequency. Often confused with dûment and dorment.

Key facts for document
PropertyValue
Headworddocument
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,361
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for document is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,361 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 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 document, with forms such as "dcoument", "ddocument", and "doccument". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "dûment", "dorment", "doutent", and more, 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 document, spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Écrit qui sert de preuve ou de renseignement.
  2. 2
    Source de renseignement ou de preuve, quel que soit le support matériel (film, photographie, disquette, etc.)
  3. 3
    Pièce justificative qui permet d’identifier une marchandise ou une personne.
  4. 4
    Fichier informatique.
  5. 5
    Réalisation définitive avant reproduction.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: dcoument,ddocument,doccument,docmuent,docuemnt,documennt,documentt,documetn,documment,documnet,doucment,odcument

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for document

Misspelling Variants of "document"

dcoument8ddocument9doccument9docmuent8docuemnt8documennt9documentt9documetn8
Misspelling Variants of "document"

Frequency rank: #2,361 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "document"?
"document" is spelled D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\.
What does "document" mean?
As a noun, "document" means: Écrit qui sert de preuve ou de renseignement.
What words are commonly confused with "document"?
"document" is commonly confused with "dûment", "dorment", "doutent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "document"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "document" is \dɔ.ky.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "document" come from?
"document" 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.