Dominique
\dɔ.mi.nik\
The verdict
“Dominique” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,748. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,748
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin ou féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dominique · Dominique · French
Dominique · rank #3,748 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,748
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH croyais
Nearest frequency peer: croyais (-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 « Dominique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- couvre
couvre
96,255 corpus weight
- croyais
croyais
96,254 corpus weight
- Dominique
Dominique
96,253 corpus weight
- dommages
dommages
96,252 corpus weight
- défend
défend
96,251 corpus weight
- désert
désert
96,250 corpus weight
What this shows « Dominique » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Dominique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.nik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dominique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Dominique (IPA \dɔ.mi.nik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #3,748 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin ou féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dominique, with forms such as "ddominique", "dmoinique", and "doimnique". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "domotique", "Dominic", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Dominique, spelled D-O-M-I-N-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin ou féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dominique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— J’vas faire un tour, dit-il au vieux Dominique, qui, une aiguille de bois aux doigts, réparait quelques mailles de l’échiquier, qu’une branche de saule avait rompues.
Les frères Kouachi et Amedy Coulibaly en direct, Léonarda discutant avec le président de la République, l’arrestation de Dominique Strauss-Kahn : autant d’images et de polémiques autour d’une seule et même chaîne : BFM TV.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddominique
- dmoinique
- doimnique
- domiinque
- dominiqeu
- dominiqque
- dominiuqe
- dominnique
- dominqiue
- domminique
- domniique
- odminique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dominique - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (12 here; floor ≥5).