dok
The verdict
“dok” is uncommon French (frequency #93,687 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,687
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dock, espace où l’on met un navire à sec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dok · dok · French
dok · rank #93,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,687
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doléance
Nearest frequency peer: doléance (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dok »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doble
doble
6,317 corpus weight
- dodus
dodus
6,316 corpus weight
- dok
dok
6,314 corpus weight
- doléance
doléance
6,313 corpus weight
- dormiront
dormiront
6,312 corpus weight
- douars
douars
6,311 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dok » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dok |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #93,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dok » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dok is uncommon French at frequency #93,687 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dok, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dok, spelled D-O-K.
Definition
- 1Dock, espace où l’on met un navire à sec.
- 2Cale, bassin dans le port.
- 3Sautereau, mécanique d'un instrument à cordes pincées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dok appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
de dokken van Antwerpen.
Synonyms
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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