Dover
The verdict
“Dover” is uncommon French (frequency #55,207 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,207
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Douvres, ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dover · Dover · French
Dover · rank #55,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,207
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH doutons
Nearest frequency peer: doutons (-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 « Dover »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dogues
dogues
44,797 corpus weight
- dominateurs
dominateurs
44,796 corpus weight
- doutons
doutons
44,795 corpus weight
- Dover
Dover
44,794 corpus weight
- downs
downs
44,793 corpus weight
- dramaturges
dramaturges
44,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Dover » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dover |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Dover » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Dover is uncommon French at frequency #55,207 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Douvres, ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Dover, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Dover, spelled D-O-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Douvres, ville et District d’Angleterre situé dans le comté du Kent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Dover appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il signor Benvenuto Lamperth ti consegnerà questa lettera che ti scrivo da Dover.
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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