dolomites
\dɔ.lɔ.mit\
The verdict
“dolomites” is uncommon French (frequency #81,960 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,960
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dolomite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dolomites · dolomites · French
dolomites · rank #81,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,960
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Domont
Nearest frequency peer: Domont (+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 « dolomites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- discontinui…
discontinuités
18,045 corpus weight
- distillent
distillent
18,044 corpus weight
- Djakarta
Djakarta
18,043 corpus weight
- dolomites
dolomites
18,041 corpus weight
- Domont
Domont
18,040 corpus weight
- donde
donde
18,039 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dolomites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dolomites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.lɔ.mit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #81,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dolomites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dolomites is uncommon French at frequency #81,960 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.lɔ.mit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dolomite.".
dolomites doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dolomites, spelled D-O-L-O-M-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dolomite.
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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