dormants
\dɔʁ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“dormants” is uncommon French (frequency #61,454 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,454
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de dormant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormants · dormants · French
dormants · rank #61,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,454
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dolto
Nearest frequency peer: Dolto (-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 « dormants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- djellaba
djellaba
38,550 corpus weight
- doctrinal
doctrinal
38,549 corpus weight
- Dolto
Dolto
38,548 corpus weight
- dormants
dormants
38,547 corpus weight
- Dorset
Dorset
38,546 corpus weight
- dosée
dosée
38,545 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dormants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dormants is uncommon French at frequency #61,454 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔʁ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de dormant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for dormants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 dormants, spelled D-O-R-M-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de dormant.
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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