doublet

/\du.blɛ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#50,778

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

doublet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chose constituée de deux éléments. Pronounced \du.blɛ\.

Key facts for doublet
PropertyValue
Headworddoublet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\du.blɛ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#50,778
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for doublet is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \du.blɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,778 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for doublet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 doublet, spelled D-O-U-B-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Chose constituée de deux éléments.
  2. 2
    Ensemble de deux titres consécutifs, ou simultanés, dans des championnats différents.
  3. 3
    Faux brillant formé de deux morceaux de cristal mis l’un sur l’autre, avec une feuille colorée entre deux, pour imiter les émeraudes, les rubis, etc.
  4. 4
    Mots partageant une même origine étymologique, introduits dans la langue par des voies ou époques différentes, qui différent par l’orthographe et la prononciation, et qui ont des acceptions plus ou moins proches sémantiquement.
  5. 5
    Liste ordonnée de deux éléments (2-uplet).
  6. 6
    Doublet électronique : Ensemble de deux électrons formant une liaison covalente, ou présents sur une orbitale hybride.
  7. 7
    Doublet électrique, doublet magnétique : Ensemble de deux charges électriques, de deux masses magnétiques ponctuelles, égales en valeur absolue et de signe contraire qui sont infiniment rapprochées.
  8. 8
    Mot constitué de deux octets, c’est-à-dire seize bits.
  9. 9
    Coup au jeu de pharaon.
  10. 10
    Nom héraldique de la libellule demoiselle.

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Frequency rank: #50,778 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "doublet"?
"doublet" is spelled D-O-U-B-L-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \du.blɛ\.
What does "doublet" mean?
As a noun, "doublet" means: Chose constituée de deux éléments.
How do you pronounce "doublet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "doublet" is \du.blɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "doublet" come from?
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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.