dogue
\dɔɡ\
The verdict
“dogue” is uncommon French (frequency #62,924 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,924
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autrefois, initialement un grand chien puissant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dogue · dogue · French
dogue · rank #62,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,924
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Domergue
Nearest frequency peer: Domergue (+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 « dogue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dispatch
dispatch
37,080 corpus weight
- divisait
divisait
37,079 corpus weight
- dogue
dogue
37,077 corpus weight
- Domergue
Domergue
37,076 corpus weight
- Donato
Donato
37,075 corpus weight
- donneriez
donneriez
37,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dogue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dogue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dogue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dogue is uncommon French at frequency #62,924 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for dogue in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dogue, spelled D-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Autrefois, initialement un grand chien puissant.
- 2Une des races de chien à tête large, au museau court et carré, au cou massif, ainsi qu’à musculature et à mâchoires extrêmement puissantes, le type du chien molossoïde.
- 3Surnom des joueurs de l'équipe de football de Lille, le LOSC.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dogue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tête d'un dogue énorme se dessinait dans l'ombre à l'ouverture de la hutte. C'était la niche d'un chien.
Les dogues étaient autrefois utilisés pour le combat et aujourd’hui comme chiens de garde et chiens de compagnie.
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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