dorique
\dɔ.ʁik\
The verdict
“dorique” is uncommon French (frequency #66,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,672
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l'ordre architectural grécolatin caractérisé notamment par des colonnes à chapiteau à échine plate (nue, sans décors), dont le fût est orné de vingt cannelures et sans base.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorique · dorique · French
dorique · rank #66,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,672
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominicales
Nearest frequency peer: dominicales (-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 « dorique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DMA
DMA
33,332 corpus weight
- doggy
doggy
33,331 corpus weight
- dominicales
dominicales
33,330 corpus weight
- dorique
dorique
33,329 corpus weight
- dormeurs
dormeurs
33,328 corpus weight
- dressa
dressa
33,326 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔ.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorique is uncommon French at frequency #66,672 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔ.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dorique, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dorique, spelled D-O-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l'ordre architectural grécolatin caractérisé notamment par des colonnes à chapiteau à échine plate (nue, sans décors), dont le fût est orné de vingt cannelures et sans base.
- 2Qui concerne la Doride antique.
- 3Relatif à une colonne ou un pilastre sobre, dont les ornements sont rares, légers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dorique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ordre dorique.
Une colonne dorique.
This word in other languages
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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