doubler
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | doubler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \du.ble\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Rendre double ; mettre le double ; augmenter d’une fois autant ; multiplier par deux.
- 2Mettre double ; mettre en double.
- 3Adjoindre ; associer.
- 4Être en double avec.
- 5Appliquer une étoffe contre l’envers d’une autre.
- 6Recouvrir un objet en cuivre ou en laiton d'une mince lamelle d'or laminée nommée plané.
- 7Passer devant.
- 8Trahir.
- 9Frapper la bande avant de frapper la bille.
- 10Tuer coup sur coup deux pièces de gibier.
- 11Tirer un second coup pour assurer le premier.
- 12Remplacer les voix, effectuer le doublage.
- 13Redoubler un niveau de classe au lieu de passer au niveau supérieur.
- 14Aller au delà, dépasser.
- 15Jouer un rôle au défaut de l’acteur qui en est chargé en premier.
- 16Devenir double.
- 17Après avoir dégagé, tromper la parade de contre.
This word in other languages
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"
Frequency rank: #8,838 in French
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