doi
The verdict
“doi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,038) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,038
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cas sujet de deus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doi · doi · French
doi · rank #27,038 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,038
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissident
Nearest frequency peer: dissident (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « doi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- destructrice
destructrice
72,966 corpus weight
- diabétique
diabétique
72,965 corpus weight
- dissident
dissident
72,964 corpus weight
- doi
doi
72,963 corpus weight
- douanière
douanière
72,962 corpus weight
- durcissement
durcissement
72,961 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « doi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « doi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for doi is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #27,038 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Cas sujet de deus.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for doi in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is doi, spelled D-O-I.
Definition
- 1Cas sujet de deus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how doi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais li doi enfant seront suen
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doi", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).