dorsale
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,422
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
dorsale is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ride médio-océanique, zone de divergence entre deux plaques tectoniques qui s'écartent l'une de l'autre avec création de lithosphère océanique. Pronounced \dɔʁ.sal\. Often confused with dosage and Dorval.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dorsale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.sal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,422 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dorsale is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔʁ.sal\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,422 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for dorsale, with forms such as "ddorsale", "dorasle", and "dorrsale". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "dosage", "Dorval", "dorsales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dorsale, spelled D-O-R-S-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ride médio-océanique, zone de divergence entre deux plaques tectoniques qui s'écartent l'une de l'autre avec création de lithosphère océanique.
- 2Consonne articulée avec le « dos » de la langue, plutôt que la pointe ou à l'arrière.
- 3Axe de pression maximal non fermé.
- 4Partie principale d’un réseau de télécommunication ou de téléinformatique, caractérisée par un débit élevé, qui concentre et transporte les flux de données entre des réseaux affluents.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddorsale,dorasle,dorrsale,dorsael,dorsalle,dorslae,dorssale,dosrale,drosale,odrsale
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Misspelling Variants of "dorsale"
Frequency rank: #20,422 in French
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