dose
French, noun
dose is spelled D-O-S-E (4 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dose is a French feminine noun meaning “proportion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of doser. With an accent, dosé is a different word: “dosed, administered”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Quantité et proportion déterminées des ingrédients qui entrent dans la composition d’un remède”.
What does dose mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineproportion
- 2
femininedose
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
adjective
- 1
dosed, administered
- 2
dished out
verb
- 1
past participle of doser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Quantité et proportion déterminées des ingrédients qui entrent dans la composition d’un remède. 2. Quantité d’un médicament que l’on en doit prendre en une fois. 3. Quantité d’un médicament – comme un pesticide – que l’on en met en une fois dans les cultures. 4. Quantité de poison ou de drogue prise en une seule fois.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dose
- doses plural
- dosée feminine
- dosés masculine plural
- dosées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to dose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dose in French?
dose appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).