doze

Name: doze, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

verb

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“doze” is uncommon French (frequency #89,616 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,616
frequency rank, French: 5,307
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Somnoler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-doze · doze · French

doze · rank #89,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-RARE #89,616
LEN-MID 4 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-0 0 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,307
PHOTO-FINISH dorrit

Nearest frequency peer: dorrit (-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.

dolo

10,388
dominika

10,387
dorrit

10,386
doze

10,385
drachme

10,384
dreaming

10,383

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « doze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Key facts for doze
Property	Value
Headword	doze
Language	French
Part of speech	Verb
Letters	4
Frequency rank	#89,616
Misspellings tracked	0
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « doze » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.dozetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#89,616

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « dorrit » (#89,615), « drachme » (#89,617), « dominika » (#89,614). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « doze » est au #89,616. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

doze is uncommon French at frequency #89,616 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Somnoler.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for doze, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is doze, spelled D-O-Z-E.

Definition

1
Somnoler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

He was dozing in his chair.
After eating we crept back to the scullery, and there I must have dozed again, for when presently I looked round I was alone. (The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells)

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 "doze"?

"doze" is spelled D-O-Z-E.

What does "doze" mean?

As a verb, "doze" means: Somnoler.

What language does "doze" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

dolo#89,613 drue#89,619 DMLA#89,611 dink#89,604