donjon
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,014
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
donjon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tour principale d’un château où se conservaient les archives et le trésor et où se concentraient les derniers efforts de la défense. Pronounced \dɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\. Often confused with Dorion and donnons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | donjon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for donjon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ̃.ʒɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,014 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for donjon, with forms such as "ddonjon", "dnojon", and "dojnon". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Dorion", "donnons", "donjons", 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 donjon, spelled D-O-N-J-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tour principale d’un château où se conservaient les archives et le trésor et où se concentraient les derniers efforts de la défense.
- 2Meuble représentant une tour carrée dans les armoiries. On parle rarement de donjon lorsque la tour est seule mais plutôt de tour carrée. En effet, la notion de donjon est plutôt réservée à la tour principale ou centrale d’un château. Le choix de l’usage du mot donjon dans le blasonnement fait généralement référence au nom d’un monument local voire au lieu lui-même pour composer des armes parlantes. À rapprocher de beffroi, phare et tour.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddonjon,dnojon,dojnon,donjjon,donjno,donjonn,donnjon,donojn,odnjon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for donjon
Misspelling Variants of "donjon"
Frequency rank: #14,014 in French
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