dol
\dɔl\
The verdict
“dol” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,772) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,772
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute espèce d’artifice employé pour induire ou entretenir une personne dans une erreur propre à la faire agir contrairement à ses intérêts.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dol · dol · French
dol · rank #27,772 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,772
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dla
Nearest frequency peer: dla (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dol »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- disputées
disputées
72,232 corpus weight
- dissidence
dissidence
72,231 corpus weight
- dla
dla
72,230 corpus weight
- dol
dol
72,229 corpus weight
- dominicain
dominicain
72,228 corpus weight
- doom
doom
72,227 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dol » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dol »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dol is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dɔl\. Frequency #27,772 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
dol doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 dol, spelled D-O-L.
Definition
- 1Toute espèce d’artifice employé pour induire ou entretenir une personne dans une erreur propre à la faire agir contrairement à ses intérêts.
- 2Faute intentionnelle.
- 3Intention de violer la loi pénale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’acheteur pouvant lui-même se convaincre de la plupart des vices que nous avons passés en revue, le vendeur n’en est nullement responsable, à moins qu’il n’y ait dol manifeste, c’est-à-dire qu’il y ait des moyens employés pour cacher l’existence d’une maladie qui n’est pas rédhibitoire, d’un défaut de conformation ou de caractère qui nuit à la valeur du…
Il y a eu dol, c’est-à-dire une manœuvre frauduleuse visant à cacher volontairement un vice dans le logement.
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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