dormeuse

\dɔʁ.møz\

/\dɔʁ.møz\/ noun

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The verdict

“dormeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #94,709 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#94,709
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui dort.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dormeuse · dormeuse · French

dormeuse · rank #94,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #94,709
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doma

Nearest frequency peer: doma (-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 « dormeuse »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dormeuse
PropertyValue
Headworddormeuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔʁ.møz\
Letters8
Frequency rank#94,709
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « dormeuse » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dormeusetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « doma » (#94,708), « documentent » (#94,707), « dosées » (#94,711). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dormeuse » est au #94,709. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dormeuse is uncommon French at frequency #94,709 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔʁ.møz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

dormeuse has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dormeuse, spelled D-O-R-M-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui dort.
  2. 2
    Chaise longue disposée de manière qu’on peut s’y étendre comme dans un lit et y dormir à son aise.
  3. 3
    Boucle d’oreille dont la perle ou le diamant est monté sur un pivot et fixé par un écrou. Elle est immobile sur l'oreille contrairement à la pendeloque, on peut donc la garder pour dormir d’où son nom.
  4. 4
    Voiture hippomobile destinée aux longs voyages, et dans laquelle il était possible de s’étendre pour dormir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how dormeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Soucieux des prévenances conjugales, il avait pris cette précaution de poser en contrebas de la dormeuse la lampe à la mèche baissée.
  2. M. de la Ferté ne remarqua pas que ces deux voyages coïncidèrent avec la disparition, le premier d’une paire de dormeuses et d’une broche de diamants, le second d’une robe de point d’Angleterre, à trois volants.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dormeuse"?
"dormeuse" is spelled D-O-R-M-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔʁ.møz\.
What does "dormeuse" mean?
As a noun, "dormeuse" means: Celle qui dort.
How do you pronounce "dormeuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dormeuse" is \dɔʁ.møz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dormeuse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list