doigté
French, noun
doigté is spelled D-O-I-G-T-É (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 40,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doigté is a French masculine noun meaning “fingering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of doigter (“to finger”). Without its accent, doigte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée”.
What does doigté mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefingering
- 2
masculineskill, tact
verb
- 1
past participle of doigter (“to finger”)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée. 2. Code chiffré qui indique pour chaque note, le doigt à utiliser dans le jeu de certains instruments comme le piano. 3. Habileté et légèreté de main pour les actions, prudence pour les propos. 4. Autre dénomination du doigtage.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of doigté
- doigtés plural
- doigter alternative
- doigtée feminine
- doigtées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to doigté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doigté in French?
doigté appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).