dédoublement
Letters
12 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,361
in French word usage
Misspellings
19
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
dédoublement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de dédoubler ou état de ce qui est dédoublé. Pronounced \de.du.blə.mɑ̃\. Often confused with doublement and déroulement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédoublement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.du.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #36,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dédoublement is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.du.blə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,361 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 19 documented wrong-spelling variants for dédoublement, with forms such as "ddédoublement", "ddéoublement", and "dedoublement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "doublement", "déroulement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is dédoublement, spelled D-É-D-O-U-B-L-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de dédoubler ou état de ce qui est dédoublé.
- 2Division d’un ensemble en deux lots identiques.
- 3Réduction d’une substance composée en deux autres substances moins composées.
- 4Séparation de deux substances mélangées.
- 5Incapacité du contrôleur d'un périphérique à matrice (un clavier, le plus souvent) à déterminer quelles touches sont enfoncées lorsqu'au moins trois le sont en même temps. Il en résulte soit une mauvaise décision du contrôleur (ordonnant par exemple l'affichage d'un z à la place d'une s), soit le rejet des entrées incomprises (souvent associé à un signal sonore). Ghosting.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddédoublement,ddéoublement,dedoublement,déddoublement,dédobulement,dédoubblement,dédoubelment,dédoubleemnt,dédoublemennt,dédoublementt,dédoublemetn,dédoublemment,dédoublemnet,dédoubllement,dédoublmeent,dédoulbement,déduoblement,déodublement,éddoublement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dédoublement
Misspelling Variants of "dédoublement"
Frequency rank: #36,361 in French
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