dos
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#961
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dos is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie du corps humain située au-dessus du postérieur, depuis le cou jusqu’aux reins. Pronounced \do\. It ranks #961 in French word frequency. Often confused with du and dr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \do\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #961 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dos is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \do\. Corpus data places it at rank #961 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for dos in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", 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 dos, spelled D-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Partie du corps humain située au-dessus du postérieur, depuis le cou jusqu’aux reins.
- 2Partie équivalente au dos humain du corps de certains animaux.
- 3Envers, partie de certaines choses qui, par sa destination, par sa position ou par sa forme, offre quelque rapport avec le dos de l’homme ou de l’animal.
- 4Dos crawlé (style de nage).
- 5Partie opposée au tranchant d’une lame, qui porte généralement les inscriptions indiquant le nom du fournisseur de l’arme.
- 6Côté du livre où se trouve la reliure. À ne pas confondre avec la quatrième de couverture.
- 7Proxénète.
- 8Dans une course hippique, espace situé derrière un cheval, sillage.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #961 in French
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