Douarnenez
\dwaʁ.nə.ne\
The verdict
“Douarnenez” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,895. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,895
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-douarnenez · Douarnenez · French
Douarnenez · rank #43,895 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,895
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH douairière
Nearest frequency peer: douairière (-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 « Douarnenez »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- doodle
doodle
56,109 corpus weight
- dormirai
dormirai
56,108 corpus weight
- douairière
douairière
56,107 corpus weight
- Douarnenez
Douarnenez
56,106 corpus weight
- DST
DST
56,105 corpus weight
- Ducati
Ducati
56,104 corpus weight
What this shows « Douarnenez » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Douarnenez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \dwaʁ.nə.ne\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,895 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Douarnenez »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Douarnenez (IPA \dwaʁ.nə.ne\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,895 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Douarnenez, with forms such as "ddouarnenez", "doaurnenez", and "douanrenez". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Douarnenez, spelled D-O-U-A-R-N-E-N-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Finistère.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Finistère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Douarnenez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand, venant de Douarnenez par Ploaré, on est près d’atteindre la calme plage du Riz, on se trouve subitement en face d’une échancrure de roches roses, surmontées de pins maritimes, entre lesquelles il y a la mer, bleue comme celle de l’Estérel.
Les sardiniers et les pêcheurs de thon de Douarnenez, de Concarneau et d’Audierne, eux, sont les véritables prolétaires de la mer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddouarnenez
- doaurnenez
- douanrenez
- douarennez
- douarneenz
- douarnenezz
- douarnennez
- douarnenze
- douarnneez
- douarnnenez
- douarrnenez
- douranenez
- duoarnenez
- oduarnenez
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Douarnenez - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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