dominant
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,813
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
dominant is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui domine, qui a la prépondérance, qui prévaut. Pronounced \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\. It ranks #7,813 in French word frequency. Often confused with donnant and dominent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dominant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dominant is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,813 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for dominant, with forms such as "ddominant", "dmoinant", and "doimnant". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "donnant", "dominent", "dominante", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dominant, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui domine, qui a la prépondérance, qui prévaut.
- 2Qui s’exprime, en parlant des gènes, par opposition à récessif.
- 3En faveur duquel une servitude est établie sur un fonds voisin, par opposition à servant.
- 4Qualifie l’étage supérieur d’un peuplement, dont la vigueur des arbres limite la croissance de l’étage dominé et du sous-étage; qualifie un arbre de cet étage.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddominant,dmoinant,doimnant,domiannt,dominannt,dominantt,dominatn,dominnant,dominnat,domminant,domniant,odminant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dominant
Misspelling Variants of "dominant"
Frequency rank: #7,813 in French
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