dorade

\dɔ.ʁad\

/\dɔ.ʁad\/ noun

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The verdict

“dorade” is uncommon French (frequency #65,871 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#65,871
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson osseux marin, sparidé aux écailles dorées.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dorade · dorade · French

dorade · rank #65,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #65,871
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dopants

Nearest frequency peer: dopants (-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 « dorade »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dorade
PropertyValue
Headworddorade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔ.ʁad\
Letters6
Frequency rank#65,871
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dorade » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.doradetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « dopants » (#65,870), « doudounes » (#65,872), « Donatien » (#65,869). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dorade » est au #65,871. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dorade is uncommon French at frequency #65,871 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.ʁad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dorade, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dorade, spelled D-O-R-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poisson osseux marin, sparidé aux écailles dorées.
  2. 2
    Synonyme de daurade royale.
  3. 3
    Nom parfois donné au coryphène, poisson osseux marin, poisson de la famille des coryphaenidés.
  4. 4
    Synonyme de cétérach officinal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. J’aurais voulu montrer aux enfants ces dorades Du flot bleu, ces poissons d’or, ces poissons chantants.
  2. Quelles boules ! dit Bixiou à du Bruel, quelle belle caricature si on les dessinait sous forme de raies, de dorades, et de claquarts (nom vulgaire d’un coquillage) dansant une sarabande !

This word in other languages

dorada(Español)Brasse(Deutsch)dourada(Português)

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 "dorade"?
"dorade" is spelled D-O-R-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.ʁad\.
What does "dorade" mean?
As a noun, "dorade" means: Poisson osseux marin, sparidé aux écailles dorées.
How do you pronounce "dorade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dorade" is \dɔ.ʁad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dorade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list