doktor
\dok.ˈtɔr\
The verdict
“doktor” is uncommon French (frequency #89,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,612
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Docteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doktor · doktor · French
doktor · rank #89,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,612
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DMLA
Nearest frequency peer: DMLA (-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 « doktor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divertissent
divertissent
10,392 corpus weight
- divisera
divisera
10,391 corpus weight
- DMLA
DMLA
10,390 corpus weight
- doktor
doktor
10,389 corpus weight
- dolo
dolo
10,388 corpus weight
- dominika
dominika
10,387 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doktor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doktor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dok.ˈtɔr\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doktor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doktor is uncommon French at frequency #89,612 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dok.ˈtɔr\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Docteur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for doktor, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is doktor, spelled D-O-K-T-O-R.
Definition
- 1Docteur.
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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