doser

\dɔ.ze\

/\dɔ.ze\/ verb

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The verdict

“doser” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,519. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,519
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Régler la quantité et la proportion des ingrédients qui entrent dans une composition médicinale.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doser · doser · French

doser · rank #28,519 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,519
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH doublés

Nearest frequency peer: doublés (+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 « doser »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « doser » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

doser vs dote
60% similar
doser vs dove
60% similar
doser vs dour
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for doser
PropertyValue
Headworddoser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\dɔ.ze\
Letters5
Frequency rank#28,519
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « doser »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.doserse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « doublés » (#28,520), « divertissant » (#28,517), « douceurs » (#28,521). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doser » est au #28,519. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around doser (IPA \dɔ.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #28,519 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for doser, with forms such as "ddoser", "doesr", and "doserr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "dote", "dove", "dour", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is doser, spelled D-O-S-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Régler la quantité et la proportion des ingrédients qui entrent dans une composition médicinale.
  2. 2
    Trouver la bonne quantité, la bonne proportion de quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Modifier un peuplement pour réduire la présence d’une essence ou éliminer des sujets indésirables.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how doser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cette médecine est bien dosée.
  2. Il faudra doser la manière de s’opposer, croit Jérôme Guedj, député de l’Essonne.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddoser
  • doesr
  • doserr
  • dosre
  • dosser
  • dsoer
  • odser

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of doser - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ddoser1doesr2doserr1dosre2dosser1dsoer2odser2
Edit distance from "doser"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doser"?
"doser" is spelled D-O-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔ.ze\.
What does "doser" mean?
As a verb, "doser" means: Régler la quantité et la proportion des ingrédients qui entrent dans une composition médicinale.
What words are commonly confused with "doser"?
"doser" is commonly confused with "dote", "dove", "dour". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doser" is \dɔ.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doser" come from?
"doser" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "doser", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dandy#28,509cèdre#28,508Cries#28,505Erwan#28,543

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Emilio7 variantsFarid7 variantschuis7 variantsfuret7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list