doss
French, noun/dos/
doss is spelled D-O-S-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 77,345th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doss is a French masculine noun meaning “an embarrassing story” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Dossier”.
What does doss mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineslangan embarrassing story
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Dossier.
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.
How do you pronounce doss?
- /dos/
- \dos\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is doss in French?
doss appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).