dolo
The verdict
“dolo” is uncommon French (frequency #89,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,613
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière ancestrale obtenue par la fermentation de sorgho rouge ou du mil germé et cuit dans de l’eau, très répandue en Afrique sahélienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolo · dolo · French
dolo · rank #89,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,613
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doktor
Nearest frequency peer: doktor (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dolo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divisera
divisera
10,391 corpus weight
- DMLA
DMLA
10,390 corpus weight
- doktor
doktor
10,389 corpus weight
- dolo
dolo
10,388 corpus weight
- dominika
dominika
10,387 corpus weight
- dorrit
dorrit
10,386 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dolo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dolo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #89,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dolo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dolo is uncommon French at frequency #89,613 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bière ancestrale obtenue par la fermentation de sorgho rouge ou du mil germé et cuit dans de l’eau, très répandue en Afrique sahélienne.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dolo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dolo, spelled D-O-L-O.
Definition
- 1Bière ancestrale obtenue par la fermentation de sorgho rouge ou du mil germé et cuit dans de l’eau, très répandue en Afrique sahélienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dolo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, marché. Achat d’un grand canari de dolo pour offrir aux visiteurs. Ambara a remis sa belle redingote, son pantalon blanc, son calot bleu horizon, son parapluie. Peu après le déjeuner, je vais le rejoindre au marché. Plusieurs hommes me reconnaissent et me tendent des calebasses de dolo. J’en bois quelques gorgées et j’arrache Ambara à la sien…
Les hommes nous offrent des calebasses d’hydromel et de dolo, la bière de mil.
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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