Dorothée
\dɔ.ʁɔ.te\
The verdict
“Dorothée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,550. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,550
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorothee · Dorothée · French
Dorothée · rank #24,550 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,550
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doo
Nearest frequency peer: doo (-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 « Dorothée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- documenter
documenter
75,454 corpus weight
- dodge
dodge
75,453 corpus weight
- doo
doo
75,452 corpus weight
- Dorothée
Dorothée
75,451 corpus weight
- droitier
droitier
75,450 corpus weight
- dupes
dupes
75,449 corpus weight
What this shows « Dorothée » 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 | Dorothée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.ʁɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Dorothée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Dorothée (IPA \dɔ.ʁɔ.te\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,550 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dorothée, with forms such as "ddorothée", "doorthée", and "dorohtée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Dorothy", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Dorothée, spelled D-O-R-O-T-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
- 2Nom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Dorothée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certains jours, Marthe emportait son ouvrage chez la vieille Dorothée, sa voisine. Une vieille paysanne, affable, cérémonieuse, affectionnant les façons de parler révérencieuses, particulières aux paysans de bonne famille.
Le village dormait. De la lumière aux vitres du Café de la route ; chez le maire ; chez Dorothée. Cette fille était matinale !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddorothée
- doorthée
- dorohtée
- dorothee
- dorotheé
- dorothhée
- dorotthée
- dorotéhe
- dorrothée
- dortohée
- droothée
- odrothée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dorothée - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).