Dolan
The verdict
“Dolan” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolan · Dolan · French
Dolan · rank #21,597 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,597
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distorsion
Nearest frequency peer: distorsion (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dolan »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- diagnostique
diagnostique
78,407 corpus weight
- discutable
discutable
78,406 corpus weight
- distorsion
distorsion
78,405 corpus weight
- Dolan
Dolan
78,404 corpus weight
- donnais
donnais
78,403 corpus weight
- doudou
doudou
78,402 corpus weight
What this shows « Dolan » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Dolan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dolan »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Dolan, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,597 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dolan, with forms such as "ddolan", "dloan", and "doaln". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "don", "down", "dora", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Dolan, spelled D-O-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dolan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et, comme avec Tom à la ferme et Juste la fin du monde, d’après la pièce de Jean-Luc Lagarce, Xavier Dolan signe de nouveau le récit d’un douloureux retour dans le passé au sein d’une famille dysfonctionnelle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddolan
- dloan
- doaln
- dolann
- dollan
- dolna
- odlan
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dolan - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).