dorsal
\dɔʁ.sal\
The verdict
“dorsal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,708. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,708
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient au dos.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dorsal · dorsal · French
dorsal · rank #46,708 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,708
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH Dombes
Nearest frequency peer: Dombes (-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 « dorsal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- documentées
documentées
53,296 corpus weight
- Dombes
Dombes
53,294 corpus weight
- dorsal
dorsal
53,293 corpus weight
- douées
douées
53,292 corpus weight
- dribble
dribble
53,291 corpus weight
- dunlop
dunlop
53,290 corpus weight
What this shows « dorsal » 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 | dorsal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.sal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dorsal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dorsal (IPA \dɔʁ.sal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #46,708 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dorsal, with forms such as "ddorsal", "dorasl", and "dorrsal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Dorval", "dorsale", "dorsales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is dorsal, spelled D-O-R-S-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient au dos.
- 2Ce qui occupe le dos, le revers, d’une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dorsal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’épine dorsale. - La région dorsale. - Les vertèbres dorsales.
La fièvre aphteuse (cocotte), grave chez les bovidés, peut être transmise à l’espèce humaine. Elle donne lieu alors à une stomatite caractérisée par la fièvre et une éruption de grosses vésicules qui ont pour siège d’élection la face dorsale de la langue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddorsal
- dorasl
- dorrsal
- dorsall
- dorsla
- dorssal
- dosral
- drosal
- odrsal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dorsal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).