dormons
\dɔʁ.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“dormons” is uncommon French (frequency #65,088 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,088
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dormir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dormons · dormons · French
dormons · rank #65,088 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,088
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH diviseurs
Nearest frequency peer: diviseurs (-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 « dormons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dithyrambiq…
dithyrambique
34,916 corpus weight
- divague
divague
34,915 corpus weight
- diviseurs
diviseurs
34,914 corpus weight
- dormons
dormons
34,913 corpus weight
- Duby
Duby
34,912 corpus weight
- Dupleix
Dupleix
34,911 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dormons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dormons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dormons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dormons is uncommon French at frequency #65,088 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \dɔʁ.mɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dormons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dormons, spelled D-O-R-M-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de dormir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de dormir.
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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