doo
\dˈow\
The verdict
“doo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,549) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,549
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de doar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-doo · doo · French
doo · rank #24,549 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,549
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dodge
Nearest frequency peer: dodge (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « doo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- distinctif
distinctif
75,455 corpus weight
- documenter
documenter
75,454 corpus weight
- dodge
dodge
75,453 corpus weight
- doo
doo
75,452 corpus weight
- Dorothée
Dorothée
75,451 corpus weight
- droitier
droitier
75,450 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « doo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \dˈow\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « doo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for doo is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "dr", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \dˈow\. Frequency #24,549 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de doar.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for doo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "dr", "Ds", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is doo, spelled D-O-O.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de doar.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).