doubler

/\du.ble\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,838

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

doubler is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre double ; mettre le double ; augmenter d’une fois autant ; multiplier par deux. Pronounced \du.ble\. It ranks #8,838 in French word frequency. Often confused with douter and douleur.

Key facts for doubler
PropertyValue
Headworddoubler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\du.ble\
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,838
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for doubler is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.ble\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,838 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for doubler, with forms such as "ddoubler", "dobuler", and "doubbler". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "douter", "douleur", "doucher", 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 doubler, spelled D-O-U-B-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Rendre double ; mettre le double ; augmenter d’une fois autant ; multiplier par deux.
  2. 2
    Mettre double ; mettre en double.
  3. 3
    Adjoindre ; associer.
  4. 4
    Être en double avec.
  5. 5
    Appliquer une étoffe contre l’envers d’une autre.
  6. 6
    Recouvrir un objet en cuivre ou en laiton d'une mince lamelle d'or laminée nommée plané.
  7. 7
    Passer devant.
  8. 8
    Trahir.
  9. 9
    Frapper la bande avant de frapper la bille.
  10. 10
    Tuer coup sur coup deux pièces de gibier.
  11. 11
    Tirer un second coup pour assurer le premier.
  12. 12
    Remplacer les voix, effectuer le doublage.
  13. 13
    Redoubler un niveau de classe au lieu de passer au niveau supérieur.
  14. 14
    Aller au delà, dépasser.
  15. 15
    Jouer un rôle au défaut de l’acteur qui en est chargé en premier.
  16. 16
    Devenir double.
  17. 17
    Après avoir dégagé, tromper la parade de contre.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ddoubler,dobuler,doubbler,doubelr,doublerr,doubller,doublre,doulber,duobler,odubler

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for doubler

Misspelling Variants of "doubler"

ddoubler8dobuler7doubbler8doubelr7doublerr8doubller8doublre7doulber7
Misspelling Variants of "doubler"

Frequency rank: #8,838 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doubler"?
"doubler" is spelled D-O-U-B-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \du.ble\.
What does "doubler" mean?
As a verb, "doubler" means: Rendre double ; mettre le double ; augmenter d’une fois autant ; multiplier par deux.
What words are commonly confused with "doubler"?
"doubler" is commonly confused with "douter", "douleur", "doucher". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "doubler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doubler" is \du.ble\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doubler" come from?
"doubler" 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.