dominer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,565
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
dominer is aFrenchverb. It means: Commander souverainement, avoir une puissance absolue. Pronounced \dɔ.mi.ne\. Often confused with donner and domino.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dominer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dominer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.mi.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,565 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for dominer, with forms such as "ddominer", "dmoiner", and "doimner". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "donner", "domino", "Dominic", 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 dominer, spelled D-O-M-I-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Commander souverainement, avoir une puissance absolue.
- 2Maitriser ; exercer son autorité, son influence sur quelqu’un ou sur quelque chose ; avoir de la prépondérance ; prévaloir.
- 3Paraitre le plus parmi d’autres choses, se faire le plus remarquer, être le plus fort.
- 4Être plus élevé que d'autres choses que l'on tient en sujétion ; surplomber.
- 5Maîtriser, gouverner, tant au propre qu’au figuré.
- 6Montrer sa supériorité sur un adversaire.
- 7Connaitre une matière en profondeur, en embrasser tous les aspects.
- 8Rester maître de soi-même.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddominer,dmoiner,doimner,domienr,dominerr,dominner,dominre,domminer,domnier,odminer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "dominer"
Frequency rank: #11,565 in French
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