dormis
\dɔʁ.mi\
The verdict
“dormis” is uncommon French (frequency #59,225 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,225
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormis · dormis · French
dormis · rank #59,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,225
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dorado
Nearest frequency peer: dorado (-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 « dormis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Dombasle
Dombasle
40,779 corpus weight
- Doncaster
Doncaster
40,778 corpus weight
- dorado
dorado
40,777 corpus weight
- dormis
dormis
40,776 corpus weight
- doublait
doublait
40,775 corpus weight
- douro
douro
40,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dormis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dormis is uncommon French at frequency #59,225 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɔʁ.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dormis, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is dormis, spelled D-O-R-M-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe dormir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe dormir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dormis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rassuré, je me recalai sur le sofa et dormis à nouveau, jusqu’au plein soleil.
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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