droits

/\dʁwa\/ adj

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#540

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

droits is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de droit. Pronounced \dʁwa\. It ranks #540 in French word frequency. Often confused with drôles and drones.

Key facts for droits
PropertyValue
Headworddroits
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\dʁwa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#540
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of droits in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for droits is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #540 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de droit.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for droits, with forms such as "ddroits", "dorits", and "driots". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "drôles", "drones", "doit", 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 droits, spelled D-R-O-I-T-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de droit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddroits,dorits,driots,droist,droitss,droitts,drotis,drroits,rdoits

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for droits

Misspelling Variants of "droits"

ddroits7dorits6driots6droist6droitss7droitts7drotis6drroits7
Misspelling Variants of "droits"

Frequency rank: #540 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "droits"?
"droits" is spelled D-R-O-I-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \dʁwa\.
What does "droits" mean?
As an adj, "droits" means: Masculin pluriel de droit.
What words are commonly confused with "droits"?
"droits" is commonly confused with "drôles", "drones", "doit". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "droits"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "droits" is \dʁwa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "droits" come from?
"droits" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.