double
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#844
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
double is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui vaut, qui pèse ou qui contient deux fois autant. Pronounced \dubl\. It ranks #844 in French word frequency. Often confused with doute and douce.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | double |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \dubl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for double is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dubl\. Corpus data places it at rank #844 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for double, with forms such as "ddouble", "dobule", and "doubble". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "doute", "douce", "douze", 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 double, spelled D-O-U-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui vaut, qui pèse ou qui contient deux fois autant.
- 2Qui est composé de deux choses pareilles, ou analogues entre elles, ou seulement de même nature, de même espèce.
- 3Qualifie les actes ou les contrats dont on fait deux originaux semblables, pour en laisser un entre les mains de chacune des parties intéressées.
- 4Qualifie le domino sur lequel apparaît deux valeurs semblables.
- 5Qualifie une fleur qui a acquis par la culture un plus grand nombre de pétales qu’elle n’en aurait eu dans l’état naturel.
- 6Qualifie, dans les rubriques ecclésiastiques, certaines fêtes dont l’office est plus solennel que celui des autres.
- 7Qualifie les choses plus fortes, de qualité supérieure, de vertu plus efficace que les autres choses de même nature.
- 8Qui a de la duplicité.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddouble,dobule,doubble,doubel,doublle,doulbe,duoble,oduble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for double
Misspelling Variants of "double"
Frequency rank: #844 in French
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