dopamine

\dɔ.pa.min\

/\dɔ.pa.min\/ noun

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The verdict

“dopamine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,218
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Composé organique de la classe des catécholamines jouant le rôle de neurotransmetteur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dopamine · dopamine · French

dopamine · rank #33,218 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,218
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dome

Nearest frequency peer: dome (-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 « dopamine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dopamine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

dopamine vs domine
75% similar
dopamine vs domaine
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for dopamine
PropertyValue
Headworddopamine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.pa.min\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,218
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dopamine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).dopaminese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dome » (#33,217), « download » (#33,219), « dolores » (#33,216). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dopamine » est au #33,218. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around dopamine (IPA \dɔ.pa.min\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,218 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Composé organique de la classe des catécholamines jouant le rôle de neurotransmetteur.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dopamine, with forms such as "ddopamine", "doapmine", and "dopaimne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "domine", "domaine", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dopamine, spelled D-O-P-A-M-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Composé organique de la classe des catécholamines jouant le rôle de neurotransmetteur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La variation d’un seul acide aminé dans le gène qui code pour l’enzyme COMT, un médiateur qui métabolise la dopamine et la noradrénaline, produit une différence suffisamment importante dans cette enzyme pour modifier la résistance à la douleur et de là influer sur le courage d’une personne.
  2. Cet état résulte d’un dérèglement de la quantité de dopamine dans le système nerveux. Chez un sujet classique, cette substance constitue une sorte d’écran de protection par rapport à son environnement.

Synonyms

hormone de la motivationhormone du plaisir

This word in other languages

dopamine(English)dopamina(Español)Dopamin(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddopamine
  • doapmine
  • dopaimne
  • dopamien
  • dopaminne
  • dopammine
  • dopamnie
  • dopmaine
  • doppamine
  • dpoamine
  • odpamine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dopamine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddopamine1doapmine2dopaimne2dopamien2dopaminne1dopammine1dopamnie2dopmaine2
Edit distance from "dopamine"

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 "dopamine"?
"dopamine" is spelled D-O-P-A-M-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.pa.min\.
What does "dopamine" mean?
As a noun, "dopamine" means: Composé organique de la classe des catécholamines jouant le rôle de neurotransmetteur.
What words are commonly confused with "dopamine"?
"dopamine" is commonly confused with "domine", "domaine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dopamine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dopamine" is \dɔ.pa.min\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dopamine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

download#33,219décodeur#33,231cultural#33,201creusées#33,199

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

dictées11 variantsdécoder11 variantscôtiers11 variantsenragés11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list