dolce
\dɔl.tʃe\
The verdict
“dolce” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,973. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doucement. Sert à indiquer une expression douce dans l’exécution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolce · dolce · French
dolce · rank #25,973 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,973
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dissocier
Nearest frequency peer: dissocier (-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 « dolce »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dino
dino
74,031 corpus weight
- Diouf
Diouf
74,030 corpus weight
- dissocier
dissocier
74,029 corpus weight
- dolce
dolce
74,028 corpus weight
- douillet
douillet
74,027 corpus weight
- Duchesne
Duchesne
74,026 corpus weight
What this shows « dolce » 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 | dolce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɔl.tʃe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dolce »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around dolce (IPA \dɔl.tʃe\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #25,973 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Doucement. Sert à indiquer une expression douce dans l’exécution.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for dolce, with forms such as "ddolce", "dloce", and "docle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "donc", "Dose", "doré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dolce, spelled D-O-L-C-E.
Definition
- 1Doucement. Sert à indiquer une expression douce dans l’exécution.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddolce
- dloce
- docle
- dolcce
- dolec
- dollce
- odlce
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dolce - 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).