dulcinée

\dyl.si.ne\

/\dyl.si.ne\/ noun

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The verdict

“dulcinée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,845. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,845
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
12
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme inspirant une passion romanesque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-dulcinee · dulcinée · French

dulcinée · rank #47,845 · 12 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,845
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH draghi

Nearest frequency peer: draghi (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « dulcinée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « dulcinée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dulcinée
PropertyValue
Headworddulcinée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dyl.si.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#47,845
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « dulcinée »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).dulcinéese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « draghi » (#47,844), « duplication » (#47,846), « DPJ » (#47,843). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « dulcinée » est au #47,845. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around dulcinée (IPA \dyl.si.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,845 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Femme inspirant une passion romanesque.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for dulcinée, with forms such as "ddulcinée", "dlucinée", and "duclinée". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dulcinée, spelled D-U-L-C-I-N-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme inspirant une passion romanesque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il était aux pieds de sa dulcinée.
  2. Je crois qu'il n'y a pas de plus beau cadeau à offrir à sa dulcinée que de s'être préservé pour celle avec qui on voudrait vivre sa vie.

Synonyms

dame des penséesélue de son cœur

This word in other languages

dulcinea(English)dulcinea(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ddulcinée
  • dlucinée
  • duclinée
  • dulccinée
  • dulcinee
  • dulcineé
  • dulcinnée
  • dulciéne
  • dulcniée
  • dulicnée
  • dullcinée
  • udlcinée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dulcinée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ddulcinée1dlucinée2duclinée2dulccinée1dulcinee1dulcineé2dulcinnée1dulciéne2
Edit distance from "dulcinée"

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 "dulcinée"?
"dulcinée" is spelled D-U-L-C-I-N-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dyl.si.ne\.
What does "dulcinée" mean?
As a noun, "dulcinée" means: Femme inspirant une passion romanesque.
What are common misspellings of "dulcinée"?
Common misspellings include "ddulcinée", "dlucinée", "duclinée", "dulccinée", "dulcinee". The correct spelling is "dulcinée".
How do you pronounce "dulcinée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dulcinée" is \dyl.si.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dulcinée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

déblayer#47,848diminués#47,830effarant#47,861croiront#47,821

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

décents12 variantsdomaniale12 variantseffluents12 variantscrapules12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list