doivsdoigtWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: doi is a adjective, doigt is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“doi” is an adjective and “doigt” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#27,038
“doi” frequency rank
#2,470
“doigt” frequency rank
29508
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature doi doigt
Definition Cas sujet de deus. Extrémité articulée des mains de l’être humain.

Letter map: doi vs doigt

Shared letters muted; letters that set doi and doigt apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

3 ch
doi
5 ch
doigt

Part-of-speech tell for doi / doigt

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: doi is anadjective and doigtanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “doi” sits inside “doigt”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29508, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

doi is recorded at frequency rank #27,038, classified as anadj. doigt is at rank #2,470, tagged as anoun, pronounced \dwa\.

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 29508, this pair ranks #316,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of doi vs doigt

Shared letters: dio. Private to "doi": -. Private to "doigt": gt.

"doi" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "doigt" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • doigtddoigt · diogt · dogit · doiggt · doigtt · doitg · odigt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "doi" and "doigt" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "doi" is an adjective and "doigt" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "doi" vs "doigt" - which ranks higher?
"doigt" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,470 in our French list, against #27,038 for "doi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "doi" vs "doigt" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "doi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "doigt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #316,231 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "doi" and "doigt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "DCI vs doi". 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 #316,231 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list