droite
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#516
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
droite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Côté droit. Pronounced \dʁwat\. It ranks #516 in French word frequency. Often confused with drôle and drone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁwat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for droite is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwat\. Corpus data places it at rank #516 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 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 droite, with forms such as "ddroite", "dorite", and "driote". 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, "drôle", "drone", "droits", 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 droite, spelled D-R-O-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Côté droit.
- 2Voie à droite du conducteur.
- 3Main droite.
- 4Coup donné avec la main.
- 5Terme regroupant divers courants politiques manifestant un attachement à la liberté, à l’ordre, considéré comme juste ou comme un moindre mal, réprouvant les changements brusques sur les questions de société et les questions éthiques, ainsi nommé parce qu’il s’est principalement manifesté à l’origine par les partis conservateurs ou réactionnaires qui siégeaient originellement (à partir de la Révolution) à droite du président de l’assemblée.
- 6Direction vers la fin d’une phrase.
- 7Trait résultant de la relation algébrique entre des variables, ellipse de ligne droite.
- 8Espace vectoriel de dimension un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddroite,dorite,driote,droiet,droitte,drotie,drroite,rdoite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for droite
Misspelling Variants of "droite"
Frequency rank: #516 in French
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