dorine
\dɔ.ʁin\
The verdict
“dorine” is uncommon French (frequency #71,438 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,438
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Saxifragées, dont deux espèces croissent en France au bord des ruisseaux, où elles sont mangées au printemps par les bestiaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorine · dorine · French
dorine · rank #71,438 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,438
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dossards
Nearest frequency peer: dossards (+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 « dorine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- distribuaie…
distribuaient
28,569 corpus weight
- doctoresse
doctoresse
28,567 corpus weight
- domiciliair…
domiciliaires
28,566 corpus weight
- dorine
dorine
28,563 corpus weight
- dossards
dossards
28,562 corpus weight
- dribbler
dribbler
28,561 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorine is uncommon French at frequency #71,438 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔ.ʁin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante de la famille des Saxifragées, dont deux espèces croissent en France au bord des ruisseaux, où elles sont mangées au printemps par les bestiaux.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dorine, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dorine, spelled D-O-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Saxifragées, dont deux espèces croissent en France au bord des ruisseaux, où elles sont mangées au printemps par les bestiaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dorine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dorine à feuilles alternées (Chrysosplenium alternifolium).
La dorine est un cresson sauvage au goût âcre.
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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