doigter
\dwa.te\
The verdict
“doigter” is an uncommon French word, ranked #72,249 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #72,249
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Placer, poser, faire agir les doigts selon une certaine méthode sur l’instrument dont on joue. Se dit surtout en parlant des instruments à touches ou à manche, tels que le piano et le violon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doigter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dwa.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “doigter” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for doigter is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dwa.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #72,249 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for doigter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is doigter, spelled D-O-I-G-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Placer, poser, faire agir les doigts selon une certaine méthode sur l’instrument dont on joue. Se dit surtout en parlant des instruments à touches ou à manche, tels que le piano et le violon.
- 2Indiquer sur une partition les doigts à utiliser.
- 3Stimuler le vagin, le clitoris ou l’anus en y introduisant un ou plusieurs doigts ou en caressant en surface.
- 4Désigner du doigt.
This word in other languages
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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Using “doigter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-O-I-G-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \dwa.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.