adoucie

\a.du.si\

/\a.du.si\/ adj

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The verdict

“adoucie” is uncommon French (frequency #60,515 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,515
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de adouci.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adoucie · adoucie · French

adoucie · rank #60,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,515
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH acura

Nearest frequency peer: acura (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « adoucie »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adoucie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adoucie
PropertyValue
Headwordadoucie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.du.si\
Letters7
Frequency rank#60,515
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « adoucie » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adoucietombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « acura » (#60,514), « Acker » (#60,513), « adroitement » (#60,517). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adoucie » est au #60,515. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adoucie is uncommon French at frequency #60,515 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.du.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de adouci.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adoucie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is adoucie, spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de adouci.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Et astuce ménagère, pour éviter les traces de calcaire sur les vitres, le transporteur utilise une eau adoucie et des produits déperlants.

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 "adoucie"?
"adoucie" is spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.du.si\.
What does "adoucie" mean?
As an adjective, "adoucie" means: Féminin singulier de adouci.
How do you pronounce "adoucie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adoucie" is \a.du.si\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adoucie" come from?
"adoucie" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

affinée#60,519accédez#60,509amphore#60,533éjacule#60,496

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list