dortoir
\dɔʁ.twaʁ\
The verdict
“dortoir” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,118. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,118
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grande salle où l’on couche, garnie de plusieurs lits et qui se trouve dans les communautés religieuses, les maisons d’éducation ou dans certains hospices.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dortoir · dortoir · French
dortoir · rank #20,118 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,118
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH donations
Nearest frequency peer: donations (-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 « dortoir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dises
dises
79,886 corpus weight
- distrait
distrait
79,885 corpus weight
- donations
donations
79,884 corpus weight
- dortoir
dortoir
79,883 corpus weight
- dynamite
dynamite
79,881 corpus weight
- déboires
déboires
79,880 corpus weight
What this shows « dortoir » 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 | dortoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔʁ.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dortoir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dortoir (IPA \dɔʁ.twaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,118 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dortoir, with forms such as "ddortoir", "dorotir", and "dorrtoir". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dortoirs", "dormir", "doctor", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 dortoir, spelled D-O-R-T-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Grande salle où l’on couche, garnie de plusieurs lits et qui se trouve dans les communautés religieuses, les maisons d’éducation ou dans certains hospices.
- 2Regroupement d’animaux qui dorment ensemble.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dortoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils arrivèrent à la salle qui servait de dortoir aux bandits, ils dormaient étendus çà et là.
Et l'abat-jour du quinquet, accroché dans la muraille au-dessus de la tête d'Emma, éclairait tous ces tableaux du monde, qui passaient devant elle les uns après les autres, dans le silence du dortoir et au bruit lointain de quelque fiacre attardé qui roulait encore sur les boulevards.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddortoir
- dorotir
- dorrtoir
- dortior
- dortoirr
- dortori
- dorttoir
- dotroir
- drotoir
- odrtoir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dortoir - 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
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