Which to use
“digue” and “doigté” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,169
- “digue” frequency rank
- #40,717
- “doigté” frequency rank
- 58886
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | digue | doigté |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Levée de terre, de pierres, de bois, etc. pour contenir des eaux d’un fleuve, d’un torrent, d’un lac, et contrer les flots de la mer. | Manière de positionner ses doigts sur un instrument pour jouer une note donnée. |
Where the eye mixes digue and doigté
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. digue runs 5 letters (CVCVV) against doigté's 6 (CVVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses digue with doigté
A purely visual mix-up. digue (\diɡ\) and doigté (\dwa.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58886, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
digue is recorded at frequency rank #18,169, classified as anoun, pronounced \diɡ\. doigté is at rank #40,717, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dwa.te\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 58886, this pair ranks #106,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of digue vs doigté
Shared letters: dgi. Private to "digue": eu. Private to "doigté": oté.
"digue" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV · "doigté" · 6 letters · shape CVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- digue ← ddigue · dgiue · digeu · diggue · diuge · idgue
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "digue" and "doigté" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "digue" or "doigté"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "digue" and "doigté" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "digue" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "doigté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #106,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "digue" and "doigté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "daigne vs doigté". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #106,316 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.