dormantes
\dɔʁ.mɑ̃t\
The verdict
“dormantes” is uncommon French (frequency #76,502 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,502
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de dormant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormantes · dormantes · French
dormantes · rank #76,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,502
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dormance
Nearest frequency peer: dormance (-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 « dormantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Doucouré
Doucouré
23,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dormantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dormantes is uncommon French at frequency #76,502 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔʁ.mɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de dormant.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dormantes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dormantes, spelled D-O-R-M-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de dormant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dormantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Loin de ses nuits normandes, de ses nuits dormantes, il semble à Nanette que ses oreilles vont éclater.
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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