dominants

\dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\

/\dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“dominants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,175
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble des personnes exerçant – sciemment ou non – un pouvoir au détriment d'un autre groupe, les dominés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dominants · dominants · French

dominants · rank #18,175 · 14 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,175
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH DNS

Nearest frequency peer: DNS (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dominants »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dominants » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dominants vs dominent
78% similar
dominants vs dominant
89% similar
dominants vs dominait
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dominants
PropertyValue
Headworddominants
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\
Letters9
Frequency rank#18,175
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dominants »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dominantsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « DNS » (#18,174), « dudit » (#18,176), « dm » (#18,173). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dominants » est au #18,175. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around dominants (IPA \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,175 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ensemble des personnes exerçant – sciemment ou non – un pouvoir au détriment d'un autre groupe, les dominés.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for dominants, with forms such as "ddominants", "dmoinants", and "doimnants". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "dominent", "dominant", "dominait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dominants, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ensemble des personnes exerçant – sciemment ou non – un pouvoir au détriment d'un autre groupe, les dominés.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how dominants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette assertion est ouvertement démentie dans le cas des négociations entre dominants et dominés. Là, les parties sont inscrites dans une relation, historique, d’inégalité, et qui ne peut être rééquilibrée qu’à travers un processus de découverte et le développement de nouvelles identités. Les problèmes concernent non seulement les valeurs, mais les signif…

Antonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddominants
  • dmoinants
  • doimnants
  • domiannts
  • dominannts
  • dominanst
  • dominantss
  • dominantts
  • dominatns
  • dominnants
  • dominnats
  • domminants
  • domniants
  • odminants

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dominants - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ddominants1dmoinants2doimnants2domiannts2dominannts1dominanst2dominantss1dominantts1
Edit distance from "dominants"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dominants"?
"dominants" is spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\.
What does "dominants" mean?
As a noun, "dominants" means: Ensemble des personnes exerçant – sciemment ou non – un pouvoir au détriment d'un autre groupe, les dominés.
What words are commonly confused with "dominants"?
"dominants" is commonly confused with "dominent", "dominant", "dominait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dominants"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dominants" is \dɔ.mi.nɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dominants" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dominants", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list