dom
\dɔ̃\
The verdict
“dom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,422) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,422
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre d’honneur que l’on joint aux noms propres des membres de certains ordres religieux, tels que les bénédictins et les trappistes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dom · dom · French
dom · rank #7,422 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,422
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diocèse
Nearest frequency peer: diocèse (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dom »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- croiser
croiser
92,583 corpus weight
- crédibilité
crédibilité
92,582 corpus weight
- deviner
deviner
92,581 corpus weight
- diocèse
diocèse
92,580 corpus weight
- dom
dom
92,579 corpus weight
- doré
doré
92,577 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dom » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | dom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dom »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dom is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dɔ̃\. Frequency #7,422 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Titre d’honneur que l’on joint aux noms propres des membres de certains ordres religieux, tels que les bénédictins et les trappistes.".
dom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dom, spelled D-O-M.
Definition
- 1Titre d’honneur que l’on joint aux noms propres des membres de certains ordres religieux, tels que les bénédictins et les trappistes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un excellent dom Pérignon.
Le prieur, dont le devoir est de ne rien ignorer de la conduite de ses religieux, résolut d’observer Barnabé pendant ses solitudes. Un jour donc que celui-ci était renfermé, comme à son ordinaire, dans la chapelle, dom prieur vint, accompagné de deux anciens du couvent, observer, à travers les fentes de la porte, ce qui se passait à l’intérieur.
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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