dorrit
\ˈdɔ.rːit\
The verdict
“dorrit” is uncommon French (frequency #89,615 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,615
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de torrit par adoucissement (t → d).
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorrit · dorrit · French
dorrit · rank #89,615 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,615
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominika
Nearest frequency peer: dominika (-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 « dorrit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- doktor
doktor
10,389 corpus weight
- dolo
dolo
10,388 corpus weight
- dominika
dominika
10,387 corpus weight
- dorrit
dorrit
10,386 corpus weight
- doze
doze
10,385 corpus weight
- drachme
drachme
10,384 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dorrit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorrit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈdɔ.rːit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #89,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dorrit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dorrit is uncommon French at frequency #89,615 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈdɔ.rːit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme mutée de torrit par adoucissement (t → d).".
Zero misspellings are on record for dorrit in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dorrit, spelled D-O-R-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de torrit par adoucissement (t → d).
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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