droit
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#224
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
droit is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui se trouve du côté est quand on fait face au nord (dans le cas où on parle de soi, car on utilise cet adjectif en adoptant le point de vue de la personne dont on parle). Qui est du côté opposé à... Pronounced \dʁwa\. It ranks #224 in French word frequency. Often confused with drop and drôle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dʁwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for droit is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #224 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for droit, with forms such as "ddroit", "dorit", and "driot". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "drop", "drôle", "drone", and more, 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 droit, spelled D-R-O-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui se trouve du côté est quand on fait face au nord (dans le cas où on parle de soi, car on utilise cet adjectif en adoptant le point de vue de la personne dont on parle). Qui est du côté opposé à celui de son cœur pour la majorité des êtres humains, ou encore du côté de celui de la main qui sert à écrire chez la majorité.
- 2Qui se trouve à droite dans un repère quelconque.
- 3Rectiligne ou rectilinéaire, qui va d’un point à un autre par le plus court chemin.
- 4Qualifie un câble dont les différents fils ne sont pas intervertis entre les extrémités.
- 5Perpendiculaire, de 90 degrés.
- 6Perpendiculaire, de 90 degrés.
- 7Qui n’est pas couché, qui est debout.
- 8Juste, équitable, sincère, honnête.
- 9Hétérosexuel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddroit,dorit,driot,droitt,droti,drroit,rdoit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for droit
Misspelling Variants of "droit"
Frequency rank: #224 in French
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