dodu
\dɔ.dy\
The verdict
“dodu” is uncommon French (frequency #59,955 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,955
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est bien en chair.
Corpus desk
Index FR-dodu · dodu · French
dodu · rank #59,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,955
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH donf
Nearest frequency peer: donf (+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 « dodu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- divisa
divisa
40,049 corpus weight
- divisez
divisez
40,048 corpus weight
- dodu
dodu
40,046 corpus weight
- donf
donf
40,045 corpus weight
- doubleur
doubleur
40,044 corpus weight
- dov
dov
40,043 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dodu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dodu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \dɔ.dy\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dodu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dodu is uncommon French at frequency #59,955 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \dɔ.dy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for dodu in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is dodu, spelled D-O-D-U.
Definition
- 1Qui est bien en chair.
- 2Qui a un embonpoint ferme et de bonne nature.
- 3Bombé, bien rempli.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dodu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ces pigeons sont dodus, mangez sur ma parole.
Comme ils sont dodus et gras, Ces bons sbires !
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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