dolly
\dɔ.li\
The verdict
“dolly” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,567. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,567
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Support de caméra sur roues ou rails, souvent muni d’une petite grue d’élévation, permettant de réaliser un travelling sans à-coups.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolly · dolly · French
dolly · rank #30,567 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,567
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH does
Nearest frequency peer: does (-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 « dolly »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dirent
dirent
69,437 corpus weight
- disparité
disparité
69,436 corpus weight
- does
does
69,435 corpus weight
- dolly
dolly
69,434 corpus weight
- Dorval
Dorval
69,433 corpus weight
- duper
duper
69,432 corpus weight
What this shows « dolly » 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 | dolly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,567 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dolly »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around dolly (IPA \dɔ.li\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,567 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Support de caméra sur roues ou rails, souvent muni d’une petite grue d’élévation, permettant de réaliser un travelling sans à-coups.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for dolly, with forms such as "ddolly", "dloly", and "dollyy". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "dol", "dell", "Dole", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dolly, spelled D-O-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Support de caméra sur roues ou rails, souvent muni d’une petite grue d’élévation, permettant de réaliser un travelling sans à-coups.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dolly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’efficacité de la dolly repose sur ses roues.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddolly
- dloly
- dollyy
- doly
- dolyl
- odlly
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dolly - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).