dormance
\dɔʁ.mɑ̃s\
The verdict
“dormance” is uncommon French (frequency #76,501 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,501
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quiescence d’un organe jeune dont le développement reprendra après cette pause.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormance · dormance · French
dormance · rank #76,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dopent
Nearest frequency peer: dopent (-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 « dormance »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- DME
DME
23,503 corpus weight
- Domfront
Domfront
23,502 corpus weight
- dopent
dopent
23,501 corpus weight
- dormance
dormance
23,500 corpus weight
- dormantes
dormantes
23,499 corpus weight
- doublez
doublez
23,498 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormance » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dormance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dormance is uncommon French at frequency #76,501 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔʁ.mɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dormance, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dormance, spelled D-O-R-M-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Quiescence d’un organe jeune dont le développement reprendra après cette pause.
- 2Période de repos des plantes déclenchée par la baisse de la température et par la diminution de la photopériode.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dormance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'endospore permet à la bactérie de survivre à ces conditions défavorables dans un état de dormance mais aussi une forme de dissémination.
Les graminées et les légumineuses tropicales demandent une attention particulière car leur pouvoir germinatif peut être très variable selon l'origine des semences, ou pour des raisons de dormance.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).