doyenne
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,220
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
doyenne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est la plus ancienne suivant l’ordre de réception dans un corps, dans une compagnie. Pronounced \dwa.jɛn\. Often confused with donne and doyen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doyenne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dwa.jɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,220 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for doyenne is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dwa.jɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #33,220 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for doyenne, with forms such as "ddoyenne", "doeynne", and "doyene". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "donne", "doyen", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is doyenne, spelled D-O-Y-E-N-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle qui est la plus ancienne suivant l’ordre de réception dans un corps, dans une compagnie.
- 2La plus ancienne en âge. On dit aussi en ce sens doyenne d’âge, mais seulement dans les assemblées ou compagnies délibérantes.
- 3Nom désignant l’ambassadrice ayant passé le plus de temps dans le pays d’accueil (si le titre de doyen ne revient pas au nonce apostolique). Elle a dès lors le rôle de porte-parole du corps diplomatique auprès du chef du protocole du pays d’accueil sur les questions administratives.
- 4Titre de dignité ecclésiastique.
- 5Titre de la première dignité dans les facultés d’une université.
- 6Épouse d’un doyen.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddoyenne,doeynne,doyene,doyenen,doynene,doyyenne,dyoenne,odyenne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "doyenne"
Frequency rank: #33,220 in French
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