adoucir

\a.du.siʁ\

/\a.du.siʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“adoucir” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#25,188
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre doux, tempérer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adoucir · adoucir · French

adoucir · rank #25,188 · 9 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #25,188
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH activée

Nearest frequency peer: activée (-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 « adoucir »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adoucir » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adoucir vs Adour
57% similar
adoucir vs adoucit
86% similar
adoucir vs adouci
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adoucir
PropertyValue
Headwordadoucir
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.du.siʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#25,188
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adoucir »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « activée » (#25,187), « activisme » (#25,186), « acoustiques » (#25,185). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adoucir » est au #25,188. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around adoucir (IPA \a.du.siʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,188 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for adoucir, with forms such as "addoucir", "adocuir", and "adouccir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Adour", "adoucit", "adouci", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is adoucir, spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre doux, tempérer.
  2. 2
    Rendre plus doux, en parlant d'un son, d'une voix.
  3. 3
    Polir en ôtant les aspérités.
  4. 4
    Frotter le marbre avec une pierre-ponce dure et de l'eau ; c'est la quatrième opération employée pour parvenir au poli du marbre.
  5. 5
    Rendre plus supportable.
  6. 6
    Diminuer ce qui est trop prononcé.
  7. 7
    Apaiser.
  8. 8
    Devenir plus doux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Adoucir l’acide du citron avec le sucre.
  2. Adoucir une sauce trop salée en y ajoutant de l’eau.

Synonyms

doucir

This word in other languages

sweeten(English)suavizar(Español)abstumpfen(Deutsch)adoçar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addoucir
  • adocuir
  • adouccir
  • adoucirr
  • adoucri
  • adouicr
  • aduocir
  • aoducir
  • daoucir

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adoucir - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

addoucir1adocuir2adouccir1adoucirr1adoucri2adouicr2aduocir2aoducir2
Edit distance from "adoucir"

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 "adoucir"?
"adoucir" is spelled A-D-O-U-C-I-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.du.siʁ\.
What does "adoucir" mean?
As a verb, "adoucir" means: Rendre doux, tempérer.
What words are commonly confused with "adoucir"?
"adoucir" is commonly confused with "Adour", "adoucit", "adouci". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adoucir"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adoucir" is \a.du.siʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adoucir" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

activée#25,187aimants#25,193Airport#25,194énumère#25,179

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Angèle9 variantsécoutée9 variantsassassine9 variantsvotées9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list