dorado
\doˈɾa.ðo\
The verdict
“dorado” is uncommon French (frequency #59,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,224
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Doré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorado · dorado · French
dorado · rank #59,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,224
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Doncaster
Nearest frequency peer: Doncaster (-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 « dorado »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dombasle
Dombasle
40,779 corpus weight
- Doncaster
Doncaster
40,778 corpus weight
- dorado
dorado
40,777 corpus weight
- dormis
dormis
40,776 corpus weight
- doublait
doublait
40,775 corpus weight
- douro
douro
40,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorado » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorado |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \doˈɾa.ðo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorado » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorado is uncommon French at frequency #59,224 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \doˈɾa.ðo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Doré.".
Zero misspellings are on record for dorado in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dorado, spelled D-O-R-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Doré.
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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