doum
\dum\
The verdict
“doum” is uncommon French (frequency #85,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,647
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Palmier d’Afrique dont le tronc se divise en Y.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doum · doum · French
doum · rank #85,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,647
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douchez
Nearest frequency peer: douchez (-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 « doum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- douchez
douchez
14,355 corpus weight
- doum
doum
14,354 corpus weight
- doutera
doutera
14,353 corpus weight
- drafté
drafté
14,352 corpus weight
- dram
dram
14,351 corpus weight
- dressed
dressed
14,350 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dum\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « doum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
doum is uncommon French at frequency #85,647 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dum\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Palmier d’Afrique dont le tronc se divise en Y.".
Zero misspellings are on record for doum in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is doum, spelled D-O-U-M.
Definition
- 1Palmier d’Afrique dont le tronc se divise en Y.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how doum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le dernier rayon du soleil vint dorer les falaises blanches de la côte, et joua sur les élégantes cimes de quelques dattiers et d’un bouquet de doums, qui avaient poussé dans le sable ; […]
La plante la plus caractéristique de ces steppes est le doum (palmier nain : Chamœrops humilis), qui ne se trouve guère que là, puis, mais en quantité bien moindre, le long du talus de la terrasse supérieure et au pied de l’Atlas. Malgré la ténacité avec laquelle il s'oppose au défrichement des terres, le doum est une plante d'une grande utilité. Il fourn…
This word in other languages
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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