domus
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#43,890
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
domus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maison d’habitation urbaine destinée à une famille, dans la Rome antique. Often confused with dos and dus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | domus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #43,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for domus is 5 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #43,890 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Maison d’habitation urbaine destinée à une famille, dans la Rome antique.".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for domus, with forms such as "ddomus", "dmous", and "dommus". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dos", "dus", "dou", 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 domus, spelled D-O-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maison d’habitation urbaine destinée à une famille, dans la Rome antique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddomus,dmous,dommus,domsu,domuss,doums,odmus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for domus
Misspelling Variants of "domus"
Frequency rank: #43,890 in French
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Nearby French words
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