dorne
\dɔʁn\
The verdict
“dorne” is uncommon French (frequency #79,229 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,229
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la robe entre la ceinture et les genoux, giron.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorne · dorne · French
dorne · rank #79,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,229
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH DPT
Nearest frequency peer: DPT (+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 « dorne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- documentali…
documentalistes
20,775 corpus weight
- dolbeau
dolbeau
20,774 corpus weight
- dorne
dorne
20,772 corpus weight
- DPT
DPT
20,771 corpus weight
- dramaturgiq…
dramaturgique
20,770 corpus weight
- draperies
draperies
20,769 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorne is uncommon French at frequency #79,229 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
dorne doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dorne, spelled D-O-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Partie de la robe entre la ceinture et les genoux, giron.
- 2Tablier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dorne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’étais accouchée d’un enfant ; je l’ai tenu une demi-heure au moins dans ma dorne .
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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