donat
\dɔ.na\
The verdict
“donat” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,260
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l’ordre de Malte, laïque à qui le grand maître conférait la demi-croix pour services rendus à la religion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-donat · donat · French
donat · rank #39,260 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,260
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doe
Nearest frequency peer: doe (-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 « donat »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distinguait
distinguait
60,744 corpus weight
- djebel
djebel
60,743 corpus weight
- doe
doe
60,742 corpus weight
- donat
donat
60,741 corpus weight
- Durban
Durban
60,740 corpus weight
- décapités
décapités
60,738 corpus weight
What this shows « donat » 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 | donat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.na\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « donat »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around donat (IPA \dɔ.na\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,260 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dans l’ordre de Malte, laïque à qui le grand maître conférait la demi-croix pour services rendus à la religion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for donat, with forms such as "ddonat", "dnoat", and "doant". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dot", "donc", "dont", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is donat, spelled D-O-N-A-T.
Definition
- 1Dans l’ordre de Malte, laïque à qui le grand maître conférait la demi-croix pour services rendus à la religion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how donat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette somme était de 35 sous pour tous les membres sauf pour le précepteur (elle n'est pas précisée) et pour les donats qui n’avaient que 25 sous.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddonat
- dnoat
- doant
- donatt
- donnat
- donta
- odnat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of donat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).