doublage

/\du.blaʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,717

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

doublage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Revêtement de feuilles de cuivre, ou de planches, qu’on applique aux navires destinés à des voyages de long cours. Pronounced \du.blaʒ\. Often confused with double and doublée.

Key facts for doublage
PropertyValue
Headworddoublage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\du.blaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#18,717
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of doublage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for doublage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.blaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,717 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for doublage, with forms such as "ddoublage", "dobulage", and "doubalge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "double", "doublée", "doublure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is doublage, spelled D-O-U-B-L-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Revêtement de feuilles de cuivre, ou de planches, qu’on applique aux navires destinés à des voyages de long cours.
  2. 2
    Action de doubler.
  3. 3
    Action de pourvoir un vêtement, d’une doublure.
  4. 4
    Action de pourvoir un acteur ou une actrice d’une doublure pour le ou la remplacer à l’écran dans certaines scènes, potentiellement dangereuses ou requérant des compétences particulières.
  5. 5
    Remplacement de la bande sonore originale d’une œuvre audiovisuelle (film, téléfilm, série…) par une nouvelle bande, en substituant aux voix des comédiens d’origine celles d’autres interprètes.
  6. 6
    Prestation vocale réalisée en studio pour interpréter la voix de personnages dans une œuvre audiovisuelle, en particulier un film d’animation.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddoublage,dobulage,doubalge,doubblage,doublaeg,doublagge,doublgae,doubllage,doulbage,duoblage,odublage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doublage

Misspelling Variants of "doublage"

ddoublage9dobulage8doubalge8doubblage9doublaeg8doublagge9doublgae8doubllage9
Misspelling Variants of "doublage"

Frequency rank: #18,717 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doublage"?
"doublage" is spelled D-O-U-B-L-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \du.blaʒ\.
What does "doublage" mean?
As a noun, "doublage" means: Revêtement de feuilles de cuivre, ou de planches, qu’on applique aux navires destinés à des voyages de long cours.
What words are commonly confused with "doublage"?
"doublage" is commonly confused with "double", "doublée", "doublure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doublage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doublage" is \du.blaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doublage" come from?
"doublage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.