dolomie
\dɔ.lɔ.mi\
The verdict
“dolomie” is uncommon French (frequency #87,538 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,538
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roche sédimentaire carbonatée composée d’au moins 50% de dolomite CaMg(CO₃)₂.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolomie · dolomie · French
dolomie · rank #87,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,538
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH domaniaux
Nearest frequency peer: domaniaux (+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 « dolomie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- documenta
documenta
12,466 corpus weight
- dodos
dodos
12,465 corpus weight
- dolomie
dolomie
12,463 corpus weight
- domaniaux
domaniaux
12,462 corpus weight
- domesticité
domesticité
12,461 corpus weight
- donatrice
donatrice
12,460 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dolomie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dolomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.lɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dolomie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dolomie is uncommon French at frequency #87,538 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.lɔ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Roche sédimentaire carbonatée composée d’au moins 50% de dolomite CaMg(CO₃)₂.".
dolomie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is dolomie, spelled D-O-L-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Roche sédimentaire carbonatée composée d’au moins 50% de dolomite CaMg(CO₃)₂.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dolomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un calcul rapide montre qu’une roche doit contenir une partie de quartz pour deux de dolomie, pour se « dédolomitiser » entièrement par métamorphisme.
Sydney Gilchrist Thomas (1850-1885) et Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (1851-1935) utilisèrent, avec de la chaux (oxyde de calcium) comme base, un revêtement de dolomie (carbonate double de calcium et de magnésium) (1878).
This word in other languages
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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