dorment
\dɔʁm\
The verdict
“dorment” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,551
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorment · dorment · French
dorment · rank #12,551 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,551
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH donnons
Nearest frequency peer: donnons (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dorment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- datent
datent
87,453 corpus weight
- demeurant
demeurant
87,452 corpus weight
- donnons
donnons
87,451 corpus weight
- dorment
dorment
87,450 corpus weight
- durables
durables
87,449 corpus weight
- durera
durera
87,448 corpus weight
What this shows « dorment » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔʁm\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dorment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around dorment (IPA \dɔʁm\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,551 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for dorment, with forms such as "ddorment", "domrent", and "doremnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "durent", "dormez", "dûment", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is dorment, spelled D-O-R-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dormir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de dormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dorment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour vérifier son intuition, il calcule que, parmi toutes les naines blanches qui dorment par milliards dans les galaxies, il suffit qu’une seule transmute en son cœur le faux vide en vrai vide, qu’une seule supersymétrise son cœur, pour rendre compte du taux mesuré de sursaut gamma.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddorment
- domrent
- doremnt
- dormennt
- dormentt
- dormetn
- dormment
- dormnet
- dorrment
- droment
- odrment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dorment - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dorment", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).