dots
\dɔt\
The verdict
“dots” is uncommon French (frequency #67,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,452
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de dot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dots · dots · French
dots · rank #67,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,452
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dominicaines
Nearest frequency peer: dominicaines (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Djamila
Djamila
32,554 corpus weight
- domiciliées
domiciliées
32,551 corpus weight
- dominicaines
dominicaines
32,550 corpus weight
- dots
dots
32,549 corpus weight
- Douaumont
Douaumont
32,548 corpus weight
- Doumer
Doumer
32,546 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #67,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dots is uncommon French at frequency #67,452 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de dot.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dots in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dots, spelled D-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de dot.
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.
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