dédoubler
\de.du.ble\
The verdict
“dédoubler” is uncommon French (frequency #73,921 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,921
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ramener à l’unité ce qui était double.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dedoubler · dédoubler · French
dédoubler · rank #73,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,921
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH défrichements
Nearest frequency peer: défrichements (+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 « dédoubler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- dédales
dédales
26,083 corpus weight
- dédommage
dédommage
26,082 corpus weight
- dédoubler
dédoubler
26,080 corpus weight
- défrichemen…
défrichements
26,079 corpus weight
- défécation
défécation
26,078 corpus weight
- dégressivité
dégressivité
26,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dédoubler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dédoubler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.du.ble\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dédoubler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dédoubler is uncommon French at frequency #73,921 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.du.ble\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
dédoubler doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is dédoubler, spelled D-É-D-O-U-B-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Ramener à l’unité ce qui était double.
- 2Faire mettre sur un rang, sur une file des soldats qui étaient sur deux rangs, sur deux files.
- 3Séparer, partager un tout en deux plus ou moins égaux.
- 4Séparer une pierre, la partager en deux dans toute sa longueur.
- 5Dégarnir de sa doublure.
- 6Doubler la fréquence, l'intensité.
- 7Faire partir, presque à la même heure, à cause de l’affluence des voyageurs, deux trains au lieu d’un pour la même destination.
- 8Créer un double.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dédoubler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dédoubler les rangs, les files.
La direction avait dédoublé le rayon des robes et costumes, en créant spécialement en sa faveur un rayon de costumes pour enfants.
This word in other languages
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.
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