dolmen
\dɔl.mɛn\
The verdict
“dolmen” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,113. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,113
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sépulture mégalithique préhistorique constituée d’une ou plusieurs grosses dalles horizontales posées sur des pierres verticales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolmen · dolmen · French
dolmen · rank #46,113 · 9 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,113
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dodd
Nearest frequency peer: Dodd (-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 « dolmen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distingua
distingua
53,891 corpus weight
- diversement
diversement
53,890 corpus weight
- Dodd
Dodd
53,889 corpus weight
- dolmen
dolmen
53,888 corpus weight
- donkey
donkey
53,887 corpus weight
- donneras
donneras
53,886 corpus weight
What this shows « dolmen » 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 | dolmen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔl.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dolmen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dolmen (IPA \dɔl.mɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,113 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sépulture mégalithique préhistorique constituée d’une ou plusieurs grosses dalles horizontales posées sur des pierres verticales.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dolmen, with forms such as "ddolmen", "dlomen", and "dolemn". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "dome", "doyen", "dorme", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dolmen, spelled D-O-L-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Sépulture mégalithique préhistorique constituée d’une ou plusieurs grosses dalles horizontales posées sur des pierres verticales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dolmen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle fendit la presse, portant toujours ce cadavre que personne n’osait toucher, et elle alla le déposer sur le dolmen d’Ep-Nell, cette longue pierre plate appuyée sur deux autres, qu’on prendrait pour un ancien pont dont l’eau voisine se serait détournée et dont les assises se seraient abaissées.
Près du hameau de Bellevillotte se trouvait un dolmen dit la Pierre-couverte, dont les supports seuls restent en place. La table, enlevée il y a environ quarante ans, sert de pont sur l’Orvin : largeur, 2ᵐ,80 ; longueur, 2ᵐ,90 ; épaisseur, 0ᵐ,50.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddolmen
- dlomen
- dolemn
- dollmen
- dolmenn
- dolmmen
- dolmne
- domlen
- odlmen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dolmen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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