doigt

/\dwa\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,470

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

doigt is aFrenchnoun. It means: Extrémité articulée des mains de l’être humain. Pronounced \dwa\. It ranks #2,470 in French word frequency. Often confused with dot and dont.

Key facts for doigt
PropertyValue
Headworddoigt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dwa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,470
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for doigt is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,470 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for doigt, with forms such as "ddoigt", "diogt", and "dogit". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dot", "dont", "doit", 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 doigt, spelled D-O-I-G-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Extrémité articulée des mains de l’être humain.
  2. 2
    Partie du gant dans laquelle entre le doigt de la main ; → voir doigt de gant.
  3. 3
    Orteil.
  4. 4
    Extrémité plus ou moins agile et articulées d’un pied d’un animal.
  5. 5
    Chacune des bananes d'un "bouquet" ou d'une "main".
  6. 6
    Mesure de longueur, approximativement le travers d’un doigt, soit 1,8 à 2 centimètres.
  7. 7
    Petite quantité ; → voir à deux doigts de.
  8. 8
    Doigt d’honneur

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddoigt,diogt,dogit,doiggt,doigtt,doitg,odigt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doigt

Misspelling Variants of "doigt"

ddoigt6diogt5dogit5doiggt6doigtt6doitg5odigt5
Misspelling Variants of "doigt"

Frequency rank: #2,470 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doigt"?
"doigt" is spelled D-O-I-G-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dwa\.
What does "doigt" mean?
As a noun, "doigt" means: Extrémité articulée des mains de l’être humain.
What words are commonly confused with "doigt"?
"doigt" is commonly confused with "dot", "dont", "doit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doigt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doigt" is \dwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doigt" come from?
"doigt" 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.