dopant
\dɔ.pɑ̃\
The verdict
“dopant” is uncommon French (frequency #81,071 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,071
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui dope.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dopant · dopant · French
dopant · rank #81,071 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,071
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dniepr
Nearest frequency peer: Dniepr (-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 « dopant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- disposions
disposions
18,933 corpus weight
- dissymétrie
dissymétrie
18,932 corpus weight
- Dniepr
Dniepr
18,931 corpus weight
- dopant
dopant
18,930 corpus weight
- douville
douville
18,929 corpus weight
- drom
drom
18,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dopant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dopant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔ.pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dopant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dopant is uncommon French at frequency #81,071 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔ.pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui dope.".
dopant has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dopant, spelled D-O-P-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui dope.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dopant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rouge-limé avait beau faire des merveilles sans être inscrit sur la liste des produits dopants, c’était immanquablement à la force du mollet et au courage qu’il fallait boucler la boucle.
Dans le cas Contador, le laboratoire de Cologne a retrouvé des traces de clenbutérol, qui n’indiquent pas forcément une prise dopante, mais la réglementation considère que si une personne a cette substance dans le sang, elle est dopée.
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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