donatrice

\dɔ.na.tʁis\

/\dɔ.na.tʁis\/ noun

The verdict

“donatrice” is uncommon French (frequency #87,541 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,541
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui donne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-donatrice · donatrice · French

donatrice · rank #87,541 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,541
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH domesticité

Nearest frequency peer: domesticité (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « donatrice »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « donatrice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for donatrice
PropertyValue
Headworddonatrice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.na.tʁis\
Letters9
Frequency rank#87,541
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « donatrice » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).donatricetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « domesticité » (#87,540), « dorcas » (#87,542), « domaniaux » (#87,539). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « donatrice » est au #87,541. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

donatrice is uncommon French at frequency #87,541 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.na.tʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui donne.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for donatrice, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is donatrice, spelled D-O-N-A-T-R-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui donne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De fournir aussi à la donatrice pendant sa vie l’usage d’une bonne voiture convenablement garnie pour la saison et attelée d’un bon cheval pour aller ou bon lui semblera raisonnablement d’aller.
  2. Ces ateliers, où l’on déballe ses soucis, permettent à l’association de fabriquer des tote bags colorés, utilisés pour remercier les donateurs et donatrices.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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 "donatrice"?
"donatrice" is spelled D-O-N-A-T-R-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.na.tʁis\.
What does "donatrice" mean?
As a noun, "donatrice" means: Celle qui donne.
How do you pronounce "donatrice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "donatrice" is \dɔ.na.tʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list