dop
\dɔp\
The verdict
“dop” is uncommon French (frequency #55,884 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,884
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tenaille sur laquelle on sertit un diamant pour le présenter à un plateau tournant enduit de poudre de diamants pour la taille. (Dop mécanique des diamantaires).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dop |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔp\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dop” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dop is uncommon French at frequency #55,884 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dop, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dop, spelled D-O-P.
Definition
- 1Tenaille sur laquelle on sertit un diamant pour le présenter à un plateau tournant enduit de poudre de diamants pour la taille. (Dop mécanique des diamantaires).
- 2Calotte de métal au bout d'une baguette de bois, sur laquelle on colle les pierres précieuses pour les tailler.(Dop des lapidaires).
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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Using “dop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-O-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.