donc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#113
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
donc is anFrenchadv. It means: Marque la conclusion d’un raisonnement. Pronounced \dɔ̃k\. It ranks #113 in French word frequency. Often confused with dos and duc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | donc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adv |
| IPA | \dɔ̃k\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for donc is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ̃k\. Corpus data places it at rank #113 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for donc, with forms such as "ddonc", "dnoc", and "docn". 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", "duc", "dot", 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 donc, spelled D-O-N-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque la conclusion d’un raisonnement.
- 2Marque l’induction, exprime qu’une chose est ou doit être la conséquence, le résultat d’une autre, qu’elle a lieu en conséquence d’une autre.
- 3Marque d’étonnement, de surprise.
- 4Rend plus pressante une demande, une injonction.
- 5Renforce une phrase.
- 6Marque le retour à ce qui était dit précédemment, au sujet dont il était question avant une digression.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddonc,dnoc,docn,doncc,donnc,odnc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for donc
Misspelling Variants of "donc"
Frequency rank: #113 in French
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