doigter
French, noun/dwa.te/
doigter is spelled D-O-I-G-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 72,190th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doigter is a French masculine noun meaning “fingering” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Code chiffré qui indique pour chaque note, le doigt à utiliser dans le jeu de certains instruments comme le…”.
What does doigter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to finger, to put fingerings on a music sheet
- 2
to finger, to flick off
noun
- 1
masculinefingering
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. 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. 2. Indiquer sur une partition les doigts à utiliser. 3. Stimuler le vagin, le clitoris ou l’anus en y introduisant un ou plusieurs doigts ou en caressant en surface. 4. Désigner du doigt.
noun: 1. Code chiffré qui indique pour chaque note, le doigt à utiliser dans le jeu de certains instruments comme le piano.
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 doigter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- doigtant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- doigté participle past
- doigte first-person indicative present
- doigtes indicative present second-person
- doigtons first-person indicative plural
- doigtez indicative plural present
- doigtent indicative plural present
- doigtais first-person imperfect indicative
- doigtait imperfect indicative singular
- doigtions first-person imperfect indicative
- doigtiez imperfect indicative plural
- doigtaient imperfect indicative plural
- doigtai first-person historic indicative
- doigtas historic indicative past
- doigta historic indicative past
- doigtâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce doigter?
- /dwa.te/
- \dwa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to doigter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is doigter in French?
doigter appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).