doigt

\dwa\

/\dwa\/ noun

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The verdict

“doigt” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,470. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,470
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extrémité articulée des mains de l’être humain.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doigt · doigt · French

doigt · rank #2,470 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,470
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dette

Nearest frequency peer: dette (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « doigt »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « doigt » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

doigt vs dot
60% similar
doigt vs dont
60% similar
doigt vs doit
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doigt »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.doigtse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dette » (#2,469), « douce » (#2,471), « courte » (#2,468). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doigt » est au #2,470. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around doigt (IPA \dwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,470 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doigt, with forms such as "ddoigt", "diogt", and "dogit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dot", "dont", "doit", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is doigt, spelled D-O-I-G-T.

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how doigt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il appuya sa tête livide sur l’épaule de la jeune femme, et ses doigts crispés se cramponnèrent, en la déchirant, à la fine batiste brodée qui couvrait d’un flot de gaze le corps de Marguerite.
  2. Il m’a salué à sa manière, en portant deux doigts à sa tête et en souriant d’un air bonasse.

Synonyms

crayons

This word in other languages

finger(English)dedo(Español)Finger(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoigt
  • diogt
  • dogit
  • doiggt
  • doigtt
  • doitg
  • odigt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doigt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddoigt1diogt2dogit2doiggt1doigtt1doitg2odigt2
Edit distance from "doigt"

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.

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?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doigt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dette#2,469douce#2,471douze#2,472cesse#2,464

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

frappe7 variantsvaste7 variantsombre7 variantsservi7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list