dot

\dɔt\

/\dɔt\/ noun

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The verdict

“dot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,950) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#12,950
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apport qu’un époux ou une épouse verse à la communauté de biens.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dot · dot · French

dot · rank #12,950 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,950
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH dispersion

Nearest frequency peer: dispersion (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « dot »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « dot » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

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).

dot vs du
33% similar
dot vs dr
33% similar
dot vs Ds
0% similar

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

Key facts for dot
PropertyValue
Headworddot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɔt\
Letters3
Frequency rank#12,950
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « dot »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dotse 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 « dispersion » (#12,949), « dramatiques » (#12,951), « discriminations » (#12,948). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dot » est au #12,950. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for dot is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \dɔt\. Frequency #12,950 among 5,307 “D” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

No generated misspelling entries exist for dot in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dot, spelled D-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Apport qu’un époux ou une épouse verse à la communauté de biens.
  2. 2
    Actifs qu’une femme apporte en mariage à son époux.
  3. 3
    Actifs qu’un mari apporte en mariage à son épouse.
  4. 4
    Bien qui reste la propriété de la femme, quoique le mari en partage la jouissance et en ait l’administration.
  5. 5
    Apport que fait une fille au couvent où elle entre en religion.
  6. 6
    Don, don de Dieu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. On fait un aîné ; les cadets tâchent de se marier richement ; pêcher à la dot est leur grosse affaire.
  2. Le père et la mère cherchent l’oiseau rare, mâle ou femelle, dont la dot arrondira la fortune du fils ou de la fille.

This word in other languages

dowry(English)dote(Español)Mitgift(Deutsch)dote(Português)

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 "dot"?
"dot" is spelled D-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \dɔt\.
What does "dot" mean?
As a noun, "dot" means: Apport qu’un époux ou une épouse verse à la communauté de biens.
What words are commonly confused with "dot"?
"dot" is commonly confused with "du", "dr", "Ds". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "dot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dot" is \dɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dot" come from?
"dot" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

CSA#12,945abu#12,892nam#13,014NSA#13,019

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list