dor
\dɔʁ\
The verdict
“dor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,331) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,331
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentiment complexe qui mêle la nostalgie, la mélancolie, la douleur et la joie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dor · dor · French
dor · rank #26,331 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,331
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominicains
Nearest frequency peer: dominicains (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dor »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- disparaîtra
disparaîtra
73,673 corpus weight
- dissensions
dissensions
73,672 corpus weight
- dominicains
dominicains
73,671 corpus weight
- dor
dor
73,670 corpus weight
- drag
drag
73,669 corpus weight
- Dreux
Dreux
73,668 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « dor » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dor »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dor is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dɔʁ\. Frequency #26,331 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Sentiment complexe qui mêle la nostalgie, la mélancolie, la douleur et la joie.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for dor in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dor, spelled D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Sentiment complexe qui mêle la nostalgie, la mélancolie, la douleur et la joie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Livrés à eux-mêmes ou confiés à leurs grands-parents souvent âgés, ces enfants n’ont pas seulement succombé à ce que la presse roumaine appelle le “dor” – un fort sentiment de manque, assimilable à la saudade portugaise –, mais à ce qui constitue l’envers du décor de la situation économique de la Roumanie.
Lié au désir de revoir un être cher, de retrouver un objet perdu, de revivre une situation heureuse, le dor désigne un état étrange, où se côtoient l’abattement causé par le passage du temps et la joie à l’évocation de ce qui a un jour été.
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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