doigté

\dwa.te\

/\dwa.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“doigté” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,717
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doigte · doigté · French

doigté · rank #40,717 · 9 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,717
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dociles

Nearest frequency peer: dociles (-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 « doigté »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « doigté » 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).

doigté vs doit
67% similar
doigté vs dote
50% similar
doigté vs doute
50% similar

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

Key facts for doigté
PropertyValue
Headworddoigté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dwa.te\
Letters6
Frequency rank#40,717
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doigté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.doigtése 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 « dociles » (#40,716), « didactiques » (#40,715), « domina » (#40,719). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doigté » est au #40,717. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around doigté (IPA \dwa.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,717 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for doigté, with forms such as "ddoigté", "diogté", and "dogité". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "doit", "dote", "doute", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is doigté, spelled D-O-I-G-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée.
  2. 2
    Code chiffré qui indique pour chaque note, le doigt à utiliser dans le jeu de certains instruments comme le piano.
  3. 3
    Habileté et légèreté de main pour les actions, prudence pour les propos.
  4. 4
    Autre dénomination du doigtage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Cet exécutant a un bon doigté, un mauvais doigté.
  2. L’étude du doigté.

This word in other languages

fingering(English)Fingersatz(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoigté
  • diogté
  • dogité
  • doiggté
  • doigte
  • doigtté
  • doigét
  • doitgé
  • odigté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doigté - 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.

ddoigté1diogté2dogité2doiggté1doigte1doigtté1doigét2doitgé2
Edit distance from "doigté"

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 "doigté"?
"doigté" is spelled D-O-I-G-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \dwa.te\.
What does "doigté" mean?
As a noun, "doigté" means: Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée.
What words are commonly confused with "doigté"?
"doigté" is commonly confused with "doit", "dote", "doute". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doigté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doigté" is \dwa.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doigté" come from?
"doigté" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

domina#40,719cédait#40,706Costco#40,695cordée#40,693

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

ecclesia9 variantsennuyait9 variantsfilaire9 variantsCHSLD9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list