droiture
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#31,930
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
droiture is aFrenchnoun. It means: Disposition à se conduire, à se comporter toujours conformément aux règles du devoir, ou le fait de se comporter ainsi. Pronounced \dʁwa.tyʁ\. Often confused with droite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droiture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dʁwa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for droiture is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dʁwa.tyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #31,930 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for droiture, with forms such as "ddroiture", "doriture", and "drioture". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "droite", 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 droiture, spelled D-R-O-I-T-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Disposition à se conduire, à se comporter toujours conformément aux règles du devoir, ou le fait de se comporter ainsi.
- 2Pour un navire, aller en droiture ou faire sa route en droiture, c’est aller à sa destination sans escale, ni relâche.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddroiture,doriture,drioture,droitrue,droitture,droituer,droiturre,droiutre,drotiure,drroiture,rdoiture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for droiture
Misspelling Variants of "droiture"
Frequency rank: #31,930 in French
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