douala
\dwa.la\
The verdict
“douala” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,515. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,515
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue bantoue dont le domaine originel est limité au bassin du Cameroun, autour de l’estuaire formé par les fleuves Mongo, Wouri et Dibamba (langue littéraire mais aussi et surtout langue véhicula...
Corpus desk
Index FR-douala · douala · French
douala · rank #19,515 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,515
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dotées
Nearest frequency peer: dotées (-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 « douala »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- djihadiste
djihadiste
80,490 corpus weight
- DLC
DLC
80,489 corpus weight
- dotées
dotées
80,487 corpus weight
- douala
douala
80,486 corpus weight
- déceptions
déceptions
80,483 corpus weight
- déclarées
déclarées
80,482 corpus weight
What this shows « douala » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | douala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dwa.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « douala »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around douala (IPA \dwa.la\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,515 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Langue bantoue dont le domaine originel est limité au bassin du Cameroun, autour de l’estuaire formé par les fleuves Mongo, Wouri et Dibamba (langue littéraire mais aussi et surtout langue véhicula...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for douala, with forms such as "ddouala", "doaula", and "douaal". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "dual", "douma", "double", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct French form is douala, spelled D-O-U-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Langue bantoue dont le domaine originel est limité au bassin du Cameroun, autour de l’estuaire formé par les fleuves Mongo, Wouri et Dibamba (langue littéraire mais aussi et surtout langue véhiculaire).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how douala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est pour ça que lorsque je vais au Cameroun pour acheter quelques gris-gris […] en quelques semaines je parle le douala sans accent !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouala
- doaula
- douaal
- doualla
- doulaa
- duoala
- oduala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of douala - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).